~inspired by Sista/Poet/Playwright Ntozake Shange....
"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
 When The Rainbow Is Enuf"~


this is for
the colored
girls
who considered
suicide
back in the
70s
when we
wore
our nat'rals
neat

& threw up
Black Power
fists
with
Roy
Innes
in the
skreets

South
Central
was still
a nice
neighborhood
back then...

b-4
the '62
chevy
represented
the 'set'
you was
in

this is for
the
single
mamas
working
that
swang
shift
and
all the
"big mamas"
bouncing
grand chullin
on hips

lawd knows
the needs
a sista
had
at night
hungry
for
the one
who
rocked
it right...


this is for
the wemmenz
who loved
strong
and hung
tuff


hoping
they
babies
babies
will see
the rainbow
WUZ enuff