Saturday, December 3, 2022

Hoe Boy Considers Alabama Pitts

 

Hoe Boy Considers Alabama Pitts

 

White privilege revealed

in Albany even as Judge Landis

ruled in a felon's favor,

the black shackles tightened

another notch knowing,

law-abiding and great

was not good enough

for this man's baseball--

what they wrote in

negro Philadelphia,

gray Pittsburgh,

Babe's Baltimore

while Dizzy brayed

across the river, and

somewhere in North

Carolina, the batboy

dressed as Satch

struck out

a whole town.

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