Lionel Derbyshire Poet ABC

Round By Round

Round by Round
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

ROUND 1
Born a boy Cassicuis Clay
In January the first month
Of the year.
Asked for drink in a store
Was told water segregated here.
Your colour wrong.
Proudly rode his bike
Then stolen by the thief.
Fuming with whup 
Was told learn to box first.
ROUND 2
Full of steam in amateur years
Similarly he whupped 100 of them.
Standing tall the nicest boxer of all.
After Rome came he home
Baptized his medal in Ohio's river
Could not dine in a white diner.
In 1996 he will light the Olympics.
ROUND 3
I have a secret ..
The bear will go down in eight..
I am the greatest  
The lip will break the bear.
True to the beat 
The bear sat down after six.
And the shuffle was invented.
Now he ended his slave 
To be jailed
For NO to the draft lollipop 
To kill the people.
A courage and strength 
Which told a universe
How wrong a war in Vietnam.
After all ....
With the soul of butterfly
And the sting like a bee
The champion of the people 
Will become The Greatest
ROUND BY ROUND

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