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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:

>>>> On 2022-06-04 5:20 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Introduction to Pegasus 1976, Carver High School (Columbus Georgia)
>>>>> literary journal by Ahmos Zu-Bolton.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/5190074841041819/

>>>> "Ahmos Zu-bolton II
>>>>   Poet-in-Residence
>>>>   May, 1976"

>>>> That should set that part of the record straight.

>>> Yes, great to see this long standing matter settled...!


>> https://web.archive.org/web/20030515024800/http://www.nathanielturner.com/zubolton3.htm

>> A Crucifix for DeRidder
>> or The Governor of Ollie Street Returns

>> By Ahmos Zu-Bolton II

>> he came back at us
>> screaming, hollering
>> told us stories of something in his eyes
>> something peeping thru the deep
>> and dark of him

>> we didn't believe him
>> thought him a make-believe griot,
>> called him blind in one eye
>> stoned in the other, said he was a punch-drunk boxer
>> fighting ghosts

>> he wanted a sword in headlines
>> published the morning after

>> so he jumped from a window
>> like it was his life

>> his final cure a gravity
>> which killed him

>> Source: Open Places, No. 29 (Spring 1980)

>> ----

>> From:
>> ChickenBones: A Journal
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20030515024800/http://www.nathanielturner.com/zubolton3.htm


> Outstanding selection...!


Agreed, Victor.