[New-Poetry] Evil days

TheOldMole Opus40-01 at opus40.org
Sun Jul 13 08:31:37 EDT 2008


Can anyone identify this? It may be from a spiritual, or from an 
African-American poet.

In evil days he draws good from harm,
His house is ablaze
flames will keep me warm.



-- 
Tad Richards
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http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford




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