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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