Status Updates From The Greatest: My Own Story

But that won’t be it
The collar don’t fit
For in Miami that night
The Champ was right
He sings his song
No quarrel with Viet Cong

And is much too wise
To apologize…

Mayor Daley is King
Of the Chicago ring
Wants the Champ’s name
In the political game
So the Governor can show
That the Tiger is tame

We stopped his holler
With a million dollar collar
Let him do his thing
With his nose in a ring
No Tiger no more
Extraordinary whore

“The medal was gone, but the sickness had gone too. I felt calm, relaxed, confident. My holiday as a White Hope was over. I felt a new, secret strength.”