Tuesday, December 7, 2021

James Baldwin


Photograph by Richard Avedon / © the Richard Avedon Foundation

    Photograph by Richard Avedon


Le Sporting-club de Monte Carlo (For Lena Horne)

The lady is a tramp
a camp
a lamp

The lady is a sight
a might
a light

the lady devastated
an alley or two
reverberated through the valley
which leads to me, and you

the lady is the apple
of God’s eye:
He’s cool enough about it
but He tends to strut a little
when she passes by

the lady is a wonder
daughter of the thunder
smashing cages
legislating rages
with the voice of ages
singing us through.

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