Born beneath the black lung sky,
where coal dust clung to skin like birthright,
he was the thirteenth child
in a house of hunger and hymn.
The Valleys taught him
how to speak with his fists,
but it was his voice-
molten,deliberate-
that cracked open the world.
......
Born beneath the black lung sky,
where coal dust clung to skin like birthright,
he was the thirteenth child
in a house of hunger and hymn.
The Valleys taught him
how to speak with his fists,
but it was his voice-
molten,deliberate-
that cracked open the world.
......