Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez

Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9530-0
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1995-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Part III

Negritude is what one race

brings to the common rendezvous

where all will strive for the

new world of the poet’s vision.

C. L. R. James

Love Song No. 3

1.

i’m crazy bout that chile but she gotta go.

she don’t pay me no mind no mo. guess her

mama was right to put her out cuz she

couldn’t do nothin wid her. but she been

mine so long. she been my heart so long.

now she breakin it wid her bad habits.

always runnin like a machine out of control;

always lookin like some wild woman trying

to get some place she ain’t never been to.

always threatenin me wid her looks.

wid them eyes that don’t blink no mo.

i’m crazy bout her though, but she got to go.

her legs walkin with death everyday and

one day she gon cross them right in front of

me and one of us will fall.

here she cum openin the do. comin in wid

him. searchin the room with them eyes that

usta smile rivers, searchin for sumthin to

pick up sumthin to put her 18 years into.

how can i keep welcomin her into my house? how

can i put her out the way her mama did

when she 16 years old and fast as lightnin?

she still got baby fat on her cheeks.

still got that smile that’ll charm the drawers

off ya. hee hee hee.

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