Thursday, September 23, 2021

Ali


Thunder and grandeur sired one King 
from Louisville, Kentucky; from the depths
of poverty and racial strangulation came 
Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., descendants of 
plantation slaves of cursed antebellum South; 


  Herding Cretan milk goats and chanting Greek verses  to poly gods, writers ascribe  to the pastoral hymns of sorrow where time’s the thief...