[lit-ideas] Re: Christmas Poem
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:35:34 +0900
Hallelujah, brother.
John
On 12/26/06, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BRAND NEW BAG
In 1933
in Barnwell
South Carolina
it was,
or was it in
Pulaski
Tennessee?
No one seems to know for sure,
a most unusual voice was born
trapped in a body,
screaming to escape.
James Brown is dead.
Who now will speak for the dumb?
All those dumbed by propriety.
James, James, James,
Oh, Wildness, of whom Elvis
was such a pale imitation,
you, James, you,
the one Voice crying in the Wildness of all our souls
you, James, you
whose every cell voiced
our secret screaming.
You.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Mike Geary
Memphis
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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