Bone Man and Mets Poet in Memphis

Bone Man and Mets Poet in Memphis

Bone Man fires up the Charger adorning horn-rimmed shades, long white beard of angels, heads to Memphis to meet the Mets Poet for Civil Rights Game 2008 Bone Man is from Kentucky, home of Pee Wee Reese and the Louisville Slugger, Mets Poet is from New Jersey, home of baseball’s birth and Jackie’s first pro-game Bone Man arrives at the Peabody with five bucks in change, a fiery grin and electricity in his boots, Mets Poet arrives with two tickets to the ballgame and a dream of celebrating American hero MLK Bone Man and Mets Poet visit Civil Rights Museum where so many lives changed America changed, Boneman still heavy-hearted with memories of ‘68 came here soon after MLK was shot Bone Man stood in the same spot, alone, a young man now forty years later with the Mets Poet, a ramshackle Lorraine Motel turned “Grand Central Station” of the civil rights movement Bone Man adjusts weary eyes, strokes long white beard of angels, looks out from balcony with the rain pouring down, points crooked finger toward the soul of America and yells Never give up,
no matter what is going on!

Never Give Up!