Category Archives: poem, poetry, Josephine Baker

JOSEPHINE AT THE PANTHEON

she danced funny
               went bananas

sang so sweetly
every
   trill a thrill
(full
     chanson)

danced across
Europe and North Africa
all
    around the Gestapo

and so
   when they needed someone
to put the PAN
back into pantheon
rub
  shoulders with
  dirty old Voltaire

this daughter of
Africa
     queen of diaspora
maiden
of humanity
   was a natural choice