http://therumpus.net/2010/02/steve-almond%e2%80%99s-bad-poetry-corner-14-juice/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:11:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://therumpus.net/2010/02/steve-almond%e2%80%99s-bad-poetry-corner-14-juice/comment-page-1/#comment-17691 Harry Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:12:56 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=44422#comment-17691 Funny thing what captures the imagination of some Americans. Some folks just CAN’T let go of the image of a Black man who killed a WHITE woman getting away with it—well IF he did kill her. But it did ruin his life. Anyway, I think it was a revolutionary moment in the long sorrowful history of the violence perpetrated on African American men and women. Last I heard, in the city of Mobile, Alabama, a fellow was publicy lynched and hung in 1980. Maybe you can write a poem about that. Of course there is Emmett Till, a young boy who got tortured and killed for whistling at a white woman. Oh yeah–the guys who killed him (white) were aquitted. Maybe that ending is more satisfying to you….

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