The Kid and friends somewhere near Lenape, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1950


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Friday, July 23, 2010

Birmingham Jail


Send me a letter
And send it by mail.
Send it in care of
The Birmingham jail.

Down in Alabama,
They arrested us.
Took us bodily
Off the freedom bus.

Was running crazy,
Tripped over a log.
I was escaping
A big vicious dog.

In Mississippi
The waters arose.
We were swept over
By a big fire hose.

The sky is burning,
Here there is shooting,
And nobody yet
Has defined looting.

Send me a letter
And send it by mail.
Send it in care of
American jail.




Illustration: file photo, Birmingham, Alabama 1963
Poem was written on the occasion of the Freedom Buses of 1961

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