Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

Author:Carole Boston Weatherford [Weatherford, Carole Boston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62979-173-9
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Nights in the spotlight and in the glare

of day, our flirtation was a long song.

Mornings, Bobby fixed breakfast

at his mother’s place and watched me eat

as if dining were an exotic dance.

Dainty, he called me. Dainty.

When I invited him to meet Mom,

she tried dragging him into our tiffs,

but Bobby wouldn’t take sides.

We’d talk for hours; I’d laugh till I shook.

Sweet as cotton candy, he yearned

to ease my fears, though

I never let on what was aching me.

When I lashed out at folks

who’d done me wrong,

Bobby stood by me like a tree.

For a year or more, we played

the bar-and-grill circuit like a melody.

Everyone thought we’d get married.

I sure missed our music when we split.

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