What can you say?
To a
successful babysitter
or where
you a
loving
father
in a
time of crisis
or where
you just a Communist Party member
doing
your comradely duty
You raised the Rosenberg
Children
After their
parents
Julius &
Ethel
Went to their
death
publicly
denounced
red baited
jailed
and executed
for
what?
Communism
for
what?
Wanting to
see
Those that
earned a
crust of
bread by
the sweat of
their brow
rule the
world
But this is a poem about Jazz
The poem you wrote
Strange Fruit
The songstress Billy Holiday
Why did
you pick
the
strong one
the one good
for a bar room brawl
the
lesbian
with abusive
boyfriends
Why?
Why did you want
her to sing your song?
