Reflections on the Inauguration
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:17 pm
This is partially based on overheard conversation today in the office.
Not really a poem, not really prose, but hey ho.
“You going to watch the inauguration?”
“Nah, I’ll watch it on You Tube next week”
“He’s not really black though, is he?”
“I reckon he’ll be dead within the next month”
“Well it’s an historic day. Think of the struggle
Rosa Parks, the marches Jim Crow, the schools,
Mississippi, MLK and the X.
James Brown at the Apollo, Huey Newton,
Chicago ’68, I have a dream, Yusef Hawkins.”
“Sidney Poitier would have had a tear in his eye”
“Well we are all living the dream now”
“……….and if it fails it’ll be because he’s black,
an easy fall guy, an experiment not to be
tried again”
“Mohammed Ali should have been the first
Black president but he was to black and to angry”
“Wheres Will Smith?”
“……but not when he had Parkinson’s”
“Has anyone seen Bono? I though he would have been
there, sunglasses on.”
“Oprah Winfrey ….I wander if OJ is watching in his
cell”
“Some rednecks ain’t gonna be happy. Be some
pick ups wrapped around maple trees tonight”
“But we’ll wake up tomorrow and it’ll all be the same”
Not really a poem, not really prose, but hey ho.
“You going to watch the inauguration?”
“Nah, I’ll watch it on You Tube next week”
“He’s not really black though, is he?”
“I reckon he’ll be dead within the next month”
“Well it’s an historic day. Think of the struggle
Rosa Parks, the marches Jim Crow, the schools,
Mississippi, MLK and the X.
James Brown at the Apollo, Huey Newton,
Chicago ’68, I have a dream, Yusef Hawkins.”
“Sidney Poitier would have had a tear in his eye”
“Well we are all living the dream now”
“……….and if it fails it’ll be because he’s black,
an easy fall guy, an experiment not to be
tried again”
“Mohammed Ali should have been the first
Black president but he was to black and to angry”
“Wheres Will Smith?”
“……but not when he had Parkinson’s”
“Has anyone seen Bono? I though he would have been
there, sunglasses on.”
“Oprah Winfrey ….I wander if OJ is watching in his
cell”
“Some rednecks ain’t gonna be happy. Be some
pick ups wrapped around maple trees tonight”
“But we’ll wake up tomorrow and it’ll all be the same”