A fairly self-explanatory title, with a song to match. Warning: it contains one F-bomb, used as an intransitive verb.
Thanks to @spikelynch for rhyming “poets and whores” with “between the wars”. Once I accidentally rhymed this further with “metaphors”, I had to steal it.
If anyone is too young to find the Weimar Republic thing utterly cliched and trite, give yourself about three years.