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Vol. 9, No. 4: Winter 2003

Georgia Scene: 1964

by John Beecher

“. . . dragging that 70-year-old white lady down the courthouse steps with her head going bam on every step . . .”

And so this cat
he was from the GBI
that’s the cracker FBI
kept feeling up the chick’s legs with his electric cattle prod
and making them wiggle and holler

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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