Flash Flood Blues
Young, Kevin
Poem Flash Flood Blues I'm the African American sheep of the family. I got my masters degree in slavery. Immigrant to the American dream, evacuee, I seen the water ladder its way above me....
...Whenever we pass on the street Death pretends not to know me though the grapevine say he's my daddy...
...Swam to the savings & loan— no one home...
...Kevin Young Kevin Young is the author of five books of poems, most recently "For the Confederate Dead," and the editor of four other volumes...
...Collect call & response...
...Wolf tickets half off...
...I've steered Hardship so long— Even my wages of sin been garnished...
...He is currently Atticus Haygood Professor and Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University...
Vol. 71 • September 2007 • No. 9
