Thursday, July 1, 2021

New Poem: UNREPENTANT OLD BILL

 he comes out

 with Twitter photo

 head bowed, arm raised

 right fist clenched in midair

 trying hard to appropriate 

 Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968

 at the Mexico City Olympics 

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 Tommie and John were fighting 

 for something bigger, more important 

 than the determination to drug and rape

 and have no compassion for the sixty victims 

 plus the money and the iron will

 to insist on getting out of prison early

 on a technicality previously judged not strong enough 

 to stop the trial which sent him to prison

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 let the gaslight TV interview victory lap begin

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