Song for Iran

Song for Iran
Kenneth Reveiz

Leonardo can you hear me
The women are talking brightly about you
Dreaming nightly of your new
Eyes and marble body

Understand how much it appeals
To such untouching girls
To stroke your graying curls
To feel how your muscles feel

I beg you dress their wet
With a towel’s embrace
Kiss each soft face
And chest until this crimson sun has set

Leonardo you are in high demand
Defy this tragic start
Apply your heart and magic
Leonardo this is a song for Iran



NY, NY
6-16-09

Presenting: Jamaal St. John

Videos Contributed by Matthew Slotkin -- Every Friday night at 10PM, the Nuyorican Poets Café on the Lower East Side hosts a poetry slam. In slams, poets are not narrators detached from their story – they are the main character at their most vulnerable, often exposing their deepest secrets and darkest thoughts, they do more than recite – they declaim, they do not just sing happy lyrics – they spit the truth: race, religion, politics, nothing is left untouched.


Jamaal St. John knows all about it: