The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours by Jill Scott

Author:Jill Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250089113
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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And they said “BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO PENIS,

You need a place, a spot, a cage, boundary lines”

With a fall of a gavel

Some who do voodoo

Backward words and a tug on my womb (as a reminder of it) they

Gave me a triangle with a bright gray bow and a sign

“WE DECLARE THIS BODY, THIS FORM SHALL HOLD ONLY

SUCH AND SUCH FROM THIS TO THIS TIME”

But 3 sides could not hold me

Too cramped, too smashed, too mashed inside

Couldn’t breathe

Needed space

Room for these thick hips

These heavy lips

And this solid mammary pair

They shook their necks, scratched their asses, threw gray streamers

In the air and gave me a sign

“THIS SIMPLE INTELLECT, THIS SMALL MIND SHALL

HOLD

ONLY SUCH AND SUCH FROM THIS TO THIS TIME”

But the 4 sides could not hold me

Too tight, not right, not enough space inside

Too heavy for the bottom of that box

Too beautiful for their gray chains and locks

I scream but heard a whisper

“Let me out. let me out”

Slam the gavel shout

“YOU ARE NO ONE”

And with the blinking of an eye I was in an octagon

Along with a sign

“IT IS DECREED THAT THIS MAN’S TOOL, THIS FOOL

SHALL

HOLD ONLY SUCH AND SUCH FROM THIS TO THIS TIME”

But 8 sides could not hold me

Too strong, too much love, too much pride

And not even this space had enough space inside

So I pushed and pushed with my full lips, my heavy thighs and my

Solid mammary pair

I rubbed, scraped, Brillo-ed the surface of that cell with my nappy

Hair

I pressured, I pinched, I screeched and I shout till the whole man

World can’t stand my noise, my undying persistence and then …

I was out

Free to pick up my brush and paint my soul free

Free to dance my freedom dance free

Free to sing my freedom song free

Free to reach my hands in all directions free

Free to move my legs free

Free and in control free

So I take my freedom walk

Stroll up and down my freedom road

Shaking my freedom ass

Smiling my freedom smile

Praying on my freedom knees

Only to look up and find

Glass

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