MLK (Remove filter)
Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)
Photo credit: Kenn Thomas
Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)
Euphemisms white wash his-story
So truth disappears under vague denial
Southeast USA above Florida
Sharing a border with Pensacola
Where the past lives on
In retrospective theme parks
The past is alive everywhere
Our world is full of museums
Memories gather into congregations
...Wednesday 22nd January 2014 11:50 pm
Blues Jeans
"This earthly life is merely an embryonic prelude to a new awakening." Dr. MLK, Jr.
Blues Jeans
A shadow of disappointment
Settled around their earnest campaign
Like ominous clouds
The debonair Martin who emerged
From his Gaston Hotel room
Dressed in a denim shirt over his dress shirt
And new blue(s) jeans folded at the cuff
Ready to march as a one-man campai...
Tuesday 21st January 2014 4:14 am
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