a riff-off of Langston Hughes
but it was to you?
& him, too? Who
am I to say what
was, wasn’t, or,
for that matter
what is or isn’t
true? I will say
nothing’s new,
that freedom’s
just for a chosen
few, also that it
won’t do, this
promise long
past due, & so
many singing
the blues, bop,
Bach & Bessie
too. You, me,
then America
will be.