Lanky S Chronicles
Lanky’s Chronicles
We meet a long-limbed white boy that said his family was owners of slaves.
He was a leggy ole boy and bony angular in his physical ways.
Uncle Tom was from his past.
He described plantation life as [w]holistic.
We nicknamed him Lanky.
Lanky always got to the point.
He lives in Gross Point Park, Michigan.
He talks for hours non-stop.
He was wealthy.
He was well off.
Lanky was very sharp.
Now, one thing we have discovered about Lanky is that his family migrated
from the South, which really did not make since when he was white.
He said it was done during the surfacing of Industrial North.
They came to form a greater empire.
1930s is when this took place and today Lanky is an ole boy well to do in
Southgate.
Flip the Script
Lanky is an ole boy from the Confederate South.
He married a Cherokee woman and became tribal.
He became Chief of the Creek Tribe.
He was a White Indian in black folk’s lives.
His family migrated to the North.
They established themselves in Chippewa territory.
Peace was kept and life became whole.
Lanky was seen as a canon in focus with a dogma purpose.
His annals are archived at the Smithsonian.
Lanky demised in 2005.
This is to bring forth knowledge of his life.
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Penned on June 5, 2014 @ 12:33 A.M. EST!
Copyright © Verlena S. Walker | Year Posted 2014
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