ODE Poem: Ode to Dick Gregory, by Peter Shaheen

U shore is 1 funny
N*****!
Remember that one joke you tole
‘bout the time they let your kind
into the city park? Remember how you
was so excited to swim & how you jumped
from the high dive only
to see whitey had drained the pool?
U shore is 1 funny
N*****!

U shore is 1 funny
N*****!
Remember how you named your book
N*****!
so that one day (you knew it too)
Whitey would understand and feel bad?
That was funny even if it wasn’t
ha ha funny, it was funny
in another way.
U shore is 1 funny
N*****!

U shore is 1 funny
N*****!
Funny in a strange way kinda funny
giving up on a career as a comic
to fight for civil rights full time
cause writing a check wasn’t enuf.
What kinda man gives up $
to do the right thing?
U shore is 1 funny
N*****!

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