Salvation Blues by Rodney Jones

Author:Rodney Jones [Jones, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But when Bird Wilheit came starving and broke, they let him sleep

in a room behind the house,

For which privilege he was given the field beside them to work, a

place at their table

And the luxury of living fifty more years, a slave's son and maybe a

slave himself. My grandparents loved Bird Wilheit.

I do not know that they would have loved Vallejo for writing what

they already knew, that the world was a thief,

That many murderers sat far away in the feathery chairs of heated

parlors.

They knew that someone somewhere knew more than they knew,

and that such knowledge,

Imperfect and querulous as it must have been, was more than tall

cotton and no salvation.

They knew work started in the bitter dark and ended in the bitter

dark.

They knew prices were fixed against them, and to hell with it as long

as everything

They watered and pampered into life did not die of floods or

drought.

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