A Lost Poem Found

Oh shit. Studs Terkel  ​is d​ead. He was 96​ — the blackest white man  I ever met.  Blacker even than his lifelong friend Nelson Algren, another black man who happened to be born white. jh

BORN BLACK

Oh shit!
Studs Terkel
is dead.
He was 96 —
the blackest
white man 
I ever met —
blacker than his 
lifelong friend
Nelson Algren,
also dead, 
another white man
who happened to
be born black.

jh