Friday, February 19, 2016

THE ONLY THING THIS COUNTRY EVER BIRTHED


was the blues
and it was
a breeched birth at that.
"Kiss my ass,"
the crack
in the myth
announced
as they slid
& gripped
a lifetime
of pain
and song
hanging
from the
low limbs
of Poplar trees,
liquor laughter
& a sweet-milked tit
of secrecy.

Thank God Jews
ain't white.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016

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