Oh, nicely caught, Stephen. Lucky you to be on that streetcar, with
desire....
Doug
On 18-Feb-10, at 2:38 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Saturday evening, February 13, on the J-Church Trolley,
> over the loudspeaker, the Driver - between stops - conducts a little
> Rap
> mixing Valentine's Day Greetings, Presidents' Day, & African-
> American History:
>
> "Happy Valentines Day"
>
> "Martin Luther King
> Abraham Lincoln"
>
> "Happy Valentines Day"
>
> "John F. Kennedy
> Medgar Evers"
>
> "Happy Valentine's Day"
>
> "Aretha Franklin
> Billie Holliday"
>
> "Happy Valentines Day"
>
>
> "Patrick Henry
> H. Rap Brown"
>
> Does not ever over-do it.
> Does not say,
> "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
> or
> "Burn Baby Burn"
>
> Not even clear if he is being nostalgic
> or contemporary. Shielded behind his window
> not even clear if he is black, white or other.
>
> A kind of pure poetry
> He leaves the connections
> to each of us.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
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