Warming signs
For years they dwelt beside the shady road
Kept the front yard swept
The petunias and posies in the clay pots
Dressed their best for worship down
At the Greater Poplar Springs Missionary
They were good times
Before the naming of the shady road
after Martin Luther King
When in the neighborhood before it
Was a hood the children were good
Minded daddy who was there
There with granny and her husband
Didn’t need no Lyndon Baines to
Rebuild this great society
But he tried as the old ways died
And so the remnants of how it was
Linger
Exposed for all to see
How warm the hearth used to be.
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