"Somebody almost run off with all
of my stuff. And I was standing
there, lookin at myself, the whole
time. It wasn’t a spirit that ran off
with all my stuff. It was a
man whose ego walked round like
Rodan’s shadow. It was a man
faster then my innocence.
It was a lover, I made too much
room for. Almost run off with all
my stuff. And the one running
with it. Don’t know he got it.
I’m shoutin this is mine.
And he don’t know he got it. My
stuff is the anonymous ripped off
treasure of the year. Did you
know somebody almost got away with
me… me in a plastic bag under
their arm? Me…"
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (via andastarwasborn)
"At 4:30
a.m. you rise movin the arms and
legs that trapped you. You sighed
affirming the sculptured man and
make yourself a bath of dark musk
oil Egyptian crystals and Florida
water to remove his smell to wash
away the glitter
to watch the butterflies melt into
suds.
And the rhinestones fall beneath
her buttocks like smooth pebbles
in a Missouri creek
layin in water. You become
yourself, ordinary brown braided
woman with big legs and full lips
regular."
- Gilda, For Colored Girls (via intricatelysimple)
appartenance: by Ntozake Shange
without any assistance or guidance from you
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i’ve left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in…
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