Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne) by James Baldwin

Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne)

by: James Baldwin

The lady is a tramp

        a camp

        a lamp

The lady is a sight

        a might

        a light

the lady devastated

an alley or two

reverberated through the valley

which leads to me, and you

the lady is the apple

of God's eye:

He's cool enough about it

but He tends to strut a little

when she passes by

the lady is a wonder

daughter of the thunder

smashing cages

legislating rages

with the voice of ages

singing us through.

James Baldwin at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, southern France, on November 6, 1979. (Ralph Gatti / AFP/Getty Images)

Monday Memories

I hope all of you had a good weekend.  I certainly got a lot more accomplished than I had anticipated, but there is always still more to do.  Still, Monday is a good day to rekindle some of that good-weekend energy and help it carry us through the day--and perhaps the rest of the week, too.  So today I have a few memories--and a few funny little items to share with you all.