Gil Scott-Heron

Poetry Crisis Valentines 2004

Poetry Crisis Valentines 2024

Roses are red,
butterflies are free,
the revolution will not
be shown on TV

Roses are red,
violets are blue.
If I strangle you now
will you always be true?

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I’ll build you a pleasurdome
in Xanadu.
I decree you are my valentine!

Blue is the violet,
red is the rose,
which, by some other name,
would still please the nose.

Roses are red
Sugar is sweet
The fog rolls in on
Little cat feet

Roses are red,
Violets are Blue,
The ulitimate answer
Is 42.

Gil Scott-Heron

The chicken crossing will not be televised

It will not be sponsored by Colonel Sanders or

Brought to you by a contribution to your PBS station

From Chik-Fil-A

The chicken crossing will not be televised

(It might be on YouTube.)

anychick lived in a pretty how coop

and str e t c h e d

her chicken legs(white feathers

furled in the even

ing breeze)across

the sunset road because(pick peck)she

wanted(peck)to see

the

Capital(they didn’t

have those where she was from).