"CRIMSON TIDE"
have I been a bad boy
for being Robert Redford's pimp
fixing him up with
blond-haired blue-eyed Mid-western
girls who had never tried Heroin
well whip it on me Mammy
whip it on me Uncle Sammy
whip it on me like sweet Alabamy
have I been a bad boy
for burning down the
Post Office in Salem, West (God
dam') Virginia after mailing back
my draft card the night my
friend was shot at
at Kent State University
well whip it on me Mammy
whip it on me Uncle Sammy
whip it on me like sweet Alabamy
have I been a bad boy
for smoking a joint
while sitting on the commode
in the second floor Men's Room
of the Harvard Faculty Club
after a poetry reading
( i only farted )
well whip it on me Mammy
whip it on me Uncle Sammy
whip it on me like good ol' Alabamy
R U Outavit ~ 2/14/84
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R U Outavit
R U Outavit loves to attend poetry readings and truly believes that to hear the voice of the poet can be a life-changing/life-sustaining experience. R U is a founding member of Fire Of Prometheus, the legendary poetry performance troupe...
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