Poem: Pops-Music

Pops Staples bought a music book for $5 – to teach himself to play. He earned the money to buy the book by picking cotton, making $3 a week. And you hear that

in his guitar-sound, and you feel that in the incredible music he made. So you know that by the way he played and the songs he wrote. And your forever-shame

should be that it could ever happen that …