angel baby

1960

rosie & the originals
connected every wavering chord
loose in the body & mind
of a twelve-year-old
just climbing out
from under a school desk
from an air raid drill
.....so out of touch

and as the story goes
rosie hamlin was cheated
out of her songwriter rights
'cause she wrote the original
as a poem instead of a song

still
the poem sings
thru a single voice
.....a million hearts

--- e b bortz