In honor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s new documentary I’m putting up a poem I wrote about her in 2015! Enjoy…
Things I See – Women
February 21, 2015, in the NYTimes
By J. Dulin Jones ® feb. 2015
NOTORIOUS RBG
A Rap-sody
Tell your mothers, tell your sisters,
Tell your Aunts and your misters
Ain’t no little cutsie granny comin’
Down the Su-preme hall
It’s our Notorious RBG
Glasses, robe and all
Tell your brothers, Tell your husbands
tell your men friends and your ex-ones
That’s some badass judgement lady
Sitting on the nations court
It’s our Notorious RBG
Opinions, hope and torts
Who this lady? Who this Ruthie?
Ruthie BG, big and tough…
What she doin’? Who she slewin’?
Bests the big boys sure e’nuff
Ruthie BG, she’s our hero,
5 foot nothin’ and she don’t bluff
Brains like Hawking, soul of angels
Makes us strive for better stuff
Love you Ruthie, Love your strength
Love you teach girls everywhere
Tell ’em straight, tell em’ truthful
The world’s your oyster if you dare
Find your own path, keep upon it,
Family and children are also on it
If you want it, keep your focus
Never doubt and never quit
Pull that heart from deep inside you
Feel it feed you every bit
As you take this road less taken,
But more taken now because
Ruthie BG, she the leader
Leading sisters to march on
Take the mantle, put it on
Race the halls of ivy proud
Show the menfolk, still enraptured
Of their man folk, that sisters women
Are endowed
With hearts and minds that see far
(And wide)
Grab the issues with all their might
Keep us free and keep us safe
Keep women and children in the light
Bring men and women folk together
In a song of unity
Oh Rebel Ruthie, Ruthie BG
You’re so notorious
Cause you so free.
Ruthie, Oh Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Thanks for saving liberty.
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