Poem #5.

Why Do People Hate on Sammy Davis Jr.?
By James Bezerra

Sammy Davis Jr. Was Controversial?
Was called an Uncle Tom?
Really?
In 1963:
Nuclear bomb
in Cuba,
and anybody cared about Uncle Tom?

Sure he could sing and dance.
But did he prance,
sing and dance
for Whitey?
Some say so.
Apparently.

Sammy Davis Jr. was Controversial?
Dated Kim Novak.
Went Jewish.
Hugged Nixon.
But still had to come and go
through the kitchen.

The controversies
I never knew about
and don’t even see
and simply
never could have guessed
at,
absolutely confound me.

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