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    FOR VENICE AND THE BRIDGE



    by CGO



    It never got better than Bacon's Rebellion
    Or Hinton Rowan Helper's book
    It never got better than John C. Vaughn
    Killing scalawags in East Tennessee
    Or Bedford Forrest killing blue-bellied niggers
    At Fort Pillow



    It never got better than Pitchfork Ben Tillman
    Roaring like a brahma bull in Congress
    Or Tom Watson thundering down Justice
    In a courtroom



    It never got better than the eccentric old ladies
    Truman Capote would write about
    The saintly savantes of THE GRASS HARP
    And A CHRISTMAS MEMORY



    It never got better than the tastefully-polished fingernails
    Of the soft, white, well-manicured fingers
    Of a feminine hand, anxiously clutching the wooden filial
    Of a Confederate battle flag
    She would proudly wave with delight
    Every time her team would score



    It never got better than the copy of GONE WITH THE WIND
    Laying at her feet
    Which she would pick up and read
    When the game got too boring



    And how she would smile
    When her future husband
    Put his arm around her,
    This beautiful, righteous,
    All-too-modern woman,



    A few years before
    The nigger-black clouds
    Rolled in from Europe
    Brewing wicked weather



    It never got any better than this
    And it never will
    Until Jesus comes back



    ----CGO 8/23/2018.
    IF YOU STILL LOVE AMERIKA, YOU'RE A NIGGER-LOVER!!! ---CGO. 1/20/'09.



    "Lay down your silver and your gold
    I am a man who won't be sold
    And even when my heart grows cold
    I'll curse your evil stranglehold."---Horslips, from "Trouble With A Capital 'T'", 1977.
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