If wife leaves your ass, Writes tell-all of slavery, Rethink sorry life. Actor Week continues with a request from my mother and damnit, she gets what she wants. Fanny Kemble was born in 1809 to a family that was a pretty big deal, having more artistic types than you can shake a stick at. As … Continue reading Fanny Kemble Haiku
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Cassius Clay Haiku
Stop bad man with gun With good man slicing him in Goddamn eyes with knife. Well, good-ish. Cassius Clay (no, not Muhammed Ali) died 115 years ago today. He was an odd duck. Born to a slaveholding plantation family in 1810, he became an abolitionist in 1832 while attending Yale. And not a paper one … Continue reading Cassius Clay Haiku