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Poem, Story, Remembrance. A virtual chapbook by Leola Claiborne Carhee



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African queen
Dashikis and platform shoes
Head dress delight
Sarong around your beautiful
Brown body.

In the cabin on the plantation
I bake that cornbread and
Sweet potato pies.

Those greens are smothered
With white turnips and
Fat back

That's the way to tease and
Please your man.

Cook the pork bones,
Chitterlings, tripe, sweet breads,
Liver, lights
Anything Mass's family don't eat.

We eat well, grow strong,
Live long
We learn old Mass's tricks.

You see I learned a secret
Mass's is my great grandpa
That's what make me tick.
 Queen
Illustration, Queen, created by and © K.L.Storer -- All rights reserved.


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