What's Black?

What’s Black?
What’s Black? Black is Gladys Knight on the Claudine soundtrack,
it’s Pretty Tony from the Mack, it’s afros on top of stacks
It’s picks that fold red and green; it’s a Brooklyn baby sayin’
YakowwhaImean? It’s self esteem with no reason to gleam
It’s Backyard barbeques, it’s sometimes clothes that are used,
it’s lives that drugs abused
It’s Bootsy’s glasses made like stars, it’s Vogues and thirty
bars, it’s a hand washed car….
What’s Black? Listen and I’ll tell you, it’s callin’ your woman
Boo, it’s Eddie Kendrick singing “The Way You Do The Things You
Do, It’s Nikki Giovanni and Maya Angelou
It’s MJ runnin’ point
It’s collard greens and sweet potato pie…..It’s Concoleans,
Jheri curls and burgundy hair die, It’s always bein’ fly, It’s
Bid Whist, Spades and a Friday night fish fry
It’s the Isley brothers being played at red light basement
parties, it’s eighties soundtrack featuring Ron Hardy
It’s Big Momma’s apron string; It’s the songs Mahalia used to
sing
It’s John Carlos and Tommie Smith; it’s neva a curse but always
a gift
It’s old ladies on the porch gossipin’ about such and such, it’s
Double Dutch, it’s sometimes not havin’ much, it’s neva to be
used as a crutch
It’s not heavy it’s my brother, it’s thankin ’the Lord for a
prayin’ mother
It’s granny doin’ the hummin’ she do or those bless yo hearts
she shot at you
It’s bein’ short on your light bill money for your shorties
field trip, steppin’ with a spin and a dip, it’s kissin’ juicy
ass lips
It’s South shore drive, it’s Garfield Park, it’s whispers in the
dark……Now That’s Black

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