Round Midnight

Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
where he's going
I'm going too.

Death is always around

trying to steal life

death is always around
trying to steal life
If it don't get the husband
It'll get the wife.

Monk's gone
but I ain't blue
Monk's gone
but I ain't blue.
--Marvin X
from Poems for North American Africans, Marvin X, Al Kitab Sudan Press, 1983.