Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Abel Meeropol

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?


                                                                   
                                                                   
    
         
                



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