Poem a Day December #2
Inspiration for today’s poem comes fresh off yesterday’s Poetry Broadcast by Billy Collins, beginning at the 2:41 mark. View it here:
Mea Culpa
On yesterday’s poetry broadcast,
with “Blue Cee” digging its way
out of his Marshall bluetooth
speaker, Billy Collins
recounted the time
he and his bad-news buddy,
Tom "Trouble" Wallace, were removed
from a club by none other than
Charles Mingus himself.
And, as interesting as that story was,
I couldn’t get past the fact that old
Wildcat Collins, old Mad Dog Bill,
was man enough to let bygones
be bygones by playing Crazy Charlie’s
hit tune for all the world to enjoy.