Runaround Duke Or Duke, Duke, Duke Of Earl Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Crystal Gayle sang:
You gotta be rough, you gotta be tough
If you’re gonna fall in love these days
You gotta keep your eyes open all the time
Or you’ll get your heart broke along the way ‘
These days too many lovers these days not enough love
These days too much danger to be aware of
Games and lies, lies and games made up faces with counterfeit names

Crystal Gail Mangum;

Cried rape, a stripper, an escort, (at your service) ,
Did claim that she raped by Duke University Lacrosse players.
But the case was often mystifying for there was no DNA evidence to make crime fit,
No Horatio here, no CSI: Las Vegas, Miami, or New York here.
The group was dismissed, suspended from school, their coach quit,
Their names were plastered all over Newsweek and Time,
Such racial tensions that bordered on riots.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,
Clamored for more than a piece of the action.
These gentlemen were convicted in the news with help of Nifong,
He was going to them crucified by what they allegedly done,
He is going to get their confession by hook or crook, even by duress,
Feminist were coming out of woodwork,
Like in the Tawana Brawley case,
Their views gone amiss, Nifong had confess
He had no evidence to try to defendants,
Even though he tried very hard,
Mangum recanted her statements,
Nifong was later disbarred.
Jackson and Sharpton they have to apologize yet,
For not more fifty years, if opposite were true and the world to see,
You would a band of Afro-Americans
Not Euro-Americans,
At the end of noose hanging from tree.

(11-6-2007)