Michael Ceraolo - Jimmy Brown

Michael Ceraolo - Jimmy Brown  

 

Michael Ceraolo is a 62-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) published, and has two more (Euclid Creek Book Two,from unbound content press; Lawyers, Guns, and Money, from Writing Knights Press) in the publication pipeline."

 

 

 

Jimmy Brown

 

In my last season in the bigs

I was with Pittsburgh when Murphy

tried to organize us into a union

I spoke against the union before the vote,

and for that I was beaten up

on my way home after the game

No one should ever be beaten up

for what he believes in