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; 


The Mornings Are Hell

The mornings bring their misery and reassurance  of my life’s decline, hollow the marrow of life, empty the cup of hope and filled the plate...