Gotta love
us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips,
decked out
in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.
As the
jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak,
inhaling
bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru hips.
Like
something boneless, we glide silent, seeping ‘tween floorboards,
wrapping
around the hims, and ooh wee, clinging like glue hips.
Engines
grinding, rotating, smokin’, gotta pull back some.
Natural
minds are lost at the mere sight of ringing true hips.
Gotta love
us girls, just struttin’ down Manhattan streets
killing the
menfolk with a dose of that stinging view. Hips.
Crying ’bout
getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off
what God
gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.
BY Patricia Smith, Copyright 2007
Category: Rituals: Music, Dance, Sports,
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