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NO ROOM AT THE INN, IN THE RESTAURANT, ON THE BUS, IN THE MOVIE
THEATER, AT THE SWIMMING POOL

The servant of the wealthy had tired weary feet.. and the busdriver said..."in the back
of the bus.. take a seat"

The hired hand of the wealthy had a tired weary back..
.. the mansion owner said..
" sleep tonight.. in the hayloft.. in the barn..
in the back".

The black musician traveling around
came to an unknown strange new town
and was told.. to take his frayed
carpet bag.. out of the inn

The homeless man came to the door..
"no we can't help you"
.. said the church secretary
.. to the stranger

The pregnant woman came to the wayside lodging..
" we have no room in the inn".. said the
innkeeper..
"go down the road.".
and she did.. and placed her new born baby in
a strawfilled manger.

Each filled the place he was assigned
with a new and holy light.

FIRST LADY SALLY HEMINGS

The reflecting waters..
around the Jefferson
Memorial.. are your liquid
monument..

as seas receive slaps
without responding
so you absorbed
over and over
.. the humiliation
of waiting on your lover's
children.. while they
treated you
as Flora
and Isabella
treated
Cinderella..
you watched as he showered
his white children with love
ignoring in public his
mulatto progeny
you heard the news
of Jefferson's White
House dinners..
as you were kept out
of sight in Monticello
...he broke your heart
again.. as he broke his
promise.. to free your
children.. 200 of
your fellows were auctioned
off in slavemarkets..
... you grew tired of
reflecting him..
in your next life
you mirrored kinder
faces..
as your waters flowed
past the cold marble

24 BLACKBIRDS

"Four and twenty blackbirds
baked in a pie"
the old English sing..
of Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King
Rep Mickey Leland
and Secretary Ron Baker
of Ken Saro-Wiwa
and Steve Biko
and all the other martyrs
to the racist power structure

Even so like a party
person springing up out of
a vegan birthday cake..
they all spring back to us
in new forms.. with resurrected
and multiplied power

OH MARTIN

Oh Martin

Sometimes your voice was the thunder..
Sometimes it was the falling rain.
Always it burst our hearts asunder
and made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.

(to all inspired by the
life of MLK)

THROWN OFF TRAINS ..
MOVED TO BACK OF BUSES

Rosa Parks refused to give up
her seat on a US bus.. and the
world was changed.

Mohandas Gandhi was thrown
off a train in South Africa,
and the world was changed.

Lee Archer was moved from a
general to a nonwhite
traincar in Washington DC.. before
he became a war hero*.

Neem Karoli Baba was taken
off a train in Neem Karoli India
and the train could not move.**

WHITE CHRISTMAS

They sing White Christmas
in the stolen White House
.. their guestlist includes
.. General Tommy White
(62 million richer from
Enron)
.. they send
their ambassador
to the UN
dominated by
4 nations
predominantly white....
and they invite
GOP governors white
who execute black
inmates
much more than white
.. they invite Supreme
Court nojustices..
who have executed
more black prisoners
than white..
.. they invite Ashcroft
.. a racist imprisoner
and Missouri executioner
of nonwhites
...
and the Confederate Museum
in Texas.. with its
money from George Bush
and the Bob Jones Univ
with its visits from George
Bush.... he
has sealed the papers
of the library of Ronald
Reagan.. who gave a code to
Mississippi whites..
he called his racism
"states' rights"..
George Sr. will be there
.. his Willie Horton
ad campaign
broadcast hate of nonwhites
...
They'll have Jeb
who disenfranchised nonwhites
.. and General Tommy Franks
who bombed from a distance
nonwhites
as if he were playing
a video game

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

His will became law's
force
as William Wilberforce
was the driving force
behind ending British slavery
in history's river course.

RICHARD PRYOR

For a time
the falling snow
white
clouded the
brilliance
of the morning light
but then the clouds
melted away
and then snow white
multiplied the
brilliance
of the morning light

(to Richard Pryor.
one of the billions
of victims of a
racist world)

NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
your name is a mantra
which invokes great
courage.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
your face: a mandala

BALLOTS

Bogus ballots
backed by bullets
.. and belligerent
bullies .. who
want our baby boys
body bagged in Baghdad
... for the buillion
of billionaires