Saga - Of Mayor….Marion Barry Poem by James B. Earley

Your Honor…what better way
To prove a substance is coke
…..Than to fill-up a pipe
And take a quick smoke

The Judge said surely
Mr. Mayor…you jest
….Am I to believe
This was an official taste-test

…So he sent the Mayor away
To the Big House for a spell
The Mayor of this Nation's Capitol
….Locked-up….in Jail

Time off for good behavior
He ran for Office again
Thanks to natural charisma
…Was a virtual…shoo-in

Personally vowing to eliminate
The drug merchants of crime
Seize and burn..all the narcotics
….One pipe-full…..at a time


Author's Note:
'Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil-rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city; he gave the presidential nomination speech for Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. His celebrity transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when Barry was videotaped smoking crack cocaine and arrested by FBI officials on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry seeking re-election, and Barry served six months in a federal prison. After his release, however, he was elected to the DC city council in 1992 and ultimately returned to the mayoralty in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999.'
~Wikipedia