The Black Side of You: <br />The White Man’s dance of <br />Southern Death: <br /> <br />Improvisation 02 27 2011 <br />Original [06 05 1811] 02 26 2011 <br />(For Black History Month,2011) <br /> <br /> <br />Two hundred rebellious slaves <br />Freed themselves and formed <br />A company of soldiers –half on <br />Foot and half on horseback they <br />Set off attacking white former <br />Plantation slave holders north <br />To the south of Carolina coast <br />They moved in orderly stealth <br />Bearing well assumed -rarely <br />Observed in more accomplished <br />Units of conscripted European <br />Armies experienced in killing <br />They fought with military precision <br />Overcoming small groups of twenty <br />To thirty well armed White settlers <br />Along the way –leaving the dead <br />In swamps where once they had <br />Fled searching other fruits of freedom <br />Now marching from each encounter <br />They had success enough to grow <br />And carry on attacks in greater <br />Strength -stronger than Fleeing <br />From lashes and rapes that left <br />Black bodies bleeding and the <br />Flesh opened to accounted pain <br />In the numbering of their members <br />There rode and walked -a few of <br />Them –the quadroon there among <br />Us to celebrate though they could <br />Not dance the Mo-Town dance <br />For fathers left in the swamps <br />Among many of them was theirs <br />So they danced in ways that <br />Rhythm obeys –the white <br />Man’s dance of southern death. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Lee Mack copyright 2009. ISBN # 0615318347. Do not reproduce without permissions. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The Black Side of You: <br />The White Man’s dance of <br />Southern Death: <br /> <br />(For Black History Month 2011) <br /> <br />Original 02 26 2011 <br />By Lee Mack<br /><br />Lee B. Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-black-side-of-you-white-man-s-dance-original-02-26-2011/
