Kyle Thompson: Music

NOVEMBER BOUGHS


IT WAS NOVEMBER ON A CLEAR AUTUMN DAY
HUNDREDS HAD GATHERED TO CHEER AND TO WAVE
IN DALLAS TEXAS A SLOW MOTORCADE
BROUGHT GOVERNOR CONLEY AND J.F.K.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD STOOD AND HE SMILED
AN IMMIGRANT SON DEFIANT AND WILD
THERE AT THE WINDOW UP ON THE SIXTH FLOOR
WITH THE GUN IN HIS HAND AND HIS BACK TO THE DOOR

SITES TO THE EYE…THE TARGET A HEAD…
PULLED OFF THREE SHOTS AND THE PRESIDENT FELL DEAD
PEOPLE RAN SCREAMING AS THE CAR SPED AWAY
AND A WOMAN FELL WEEPING , ‘ THEY SHOT J.F.K. ‘

WELL LEE HARVEY OSWALD DROPPED THE GUN AND HE RAN
BUT SOON HE WAS CAPTURED AND ACCUSED AS THE MAN
WITH A SMIRK ON HIS LIPS THE COPS LED HIM AWAY
THE COLD BLOODED KILLER OF J.F.K.

THE NEWS HIT THE NATION IN A SOFT TENDER SPOT
AND JACK RUBY LEARNED THE ASSASSIN WAS CAUGHT
AND HE ALONE ACTED IN A MURDEROUS FATE
AND SHOT LEE HARVEY OSWALD DEAD FOR THE STATE…

THE FLAGS WERE ALL LOWERED AND FLEW AT HALF STAFF
JACKIE SHE WEPT………AND CASTRO , HE LAUGHED
JOHN KENNEDY BURIED…THEN JACK RUBY DIED
AND THE TRUTH TO THE NATION IS THE C.I.A. LIED

BUT THIRTY YEARS LATER…THE NEWS IS JUST TRASH
THE ETERNAL FLAME BURNS BUT THE BODY IS ASH…
CAMELOT FELLED…INTO HISTORY UNCLEAR
EXCEPT FOR THE FACES …THE TIME…PLACE AND YEAR.

IT WAS NOVEMBER ON A CLEAR AUTUMN DAY
HUNDREDS HAD GATHERED TO CHEER AND TO WAVE
IN DALLAS TEXAS A SLOW MOTORCADE
BROUGHT GOVERNOR CONLEY AND THE LATE J.F.K.