Soon we’ll be there
back
to those days
when Faubus was fab
when Klansmen were cool
and swastikas were chic not shite.

We’d thought it sorted,
that That history had ended,
that never again would mean never again
and that Governor Faubus would stay ridiculous.

Two, four, six, four
just in time
for the encore.

Tired of Waiting

by Lynn White

From Langston Hughes to Ray Davies, 
from the political to the personal
and back again,
back and forth,
back and forth.
From Kissinger to the newbie
pretenders standing in line
moving back and forth,
back and forth.
From Stockholm to The Hague
back and forth, 
back and forth.
We are so tired,
so very tired,
but all we can do is wait
to see where we shall find them.

Lynn White was born in Sheffield in 1945 and now lives in north Wales. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award.

Faubus's name became internationally known during the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, when he used the Arkansas National Guard to stop African-Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation.