Glory be!
I just remembered this one; it was in New Verse News several years ago, in Obama's presidency. Slightly changed, it still speaks to the current trend of cops killing Blacks and Trump being Trump:
Pied Authority
After G M Hopkins’ Pied Beauty
Glory be, by God he is a dappled being—
His house now couple-coloured as a brindled cow;
For faces all a-stipple standing by him;
For words he says for burnt-brown Black men dying;
Statescapes gutted, pieced—white, black, & now
A verbal fight in which the Trumpers mock him.
All things countered, North & South estranged;
War’s un-civil embers; inscaped Jim Crow.
With words puzzled, clear, sweet, sour, bright, dim
My president insists this will be changed:
Praise him.
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Ralph
Last edited by RCL; 02-15-2017 at 12:37 PM.
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