Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Epitaph of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner

Separate bathrooms
Burning churches
Gospel singers
In Mississippi burning
Freedom riders,1964
where does it come from
"all this hatred"
the burning cross of intolerance...
"do you like baseball"?
"the only time a black man
can wave a stick at a white man without starting a riot-
is at a baseball game"
not forgotten-read the tombstone
in the cemetery of the unmarked graves
in Mississippi burning,1964

Robert Denis Don

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