You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem

If you did—

                        it would
                       
                                    knock you down (remember Liston) &

            if

             you were

               still stand

                        ing                   you would

                                                                        have to

bust out (remember the March on Washington)

                                    of your shakin' vaulted            

            poor thinkin' self (oh yes!)

                                                & change (that's right!)

this big 'ol world (say it!)

  & if                            you did—   You (yes, you)

          would have to battle w/words & rhymes & body & time—for

your New Idea—(did you hear that )  you would
           
                                                               have to

  endure    (i hear you )  & propose (what?)
                       
                                    a new name for                        all

( a new name?)

it could be Peace

               it could be Unity (sounds easy)

                        but this poem     cannot

                                                            provide this
                                                           
                                                              or       contain this

  Word        —(Watch out!)

here it comes!  &

                         (it's gonna to sting like a bee)