A Story And A Ramble
A story and a Ramble
A little girl rides a bike into a candy shop
The shop owner hands her a lollipop the size of her head. She gives the owner a dollar, they give her back a nickel.
The little girl takes the nickel over to a jukebox and slides it thought the slot.
Her lollipop hits a buttons before she can even tip toe high enough to look into the glass.
A reggae rock guitar burst out of the juke box
The little girl jumps back in astonishment
The guitars blares and snares
It twist and turns until the little girl has risen to her feet to dance with the music of the moment
A women comes running into the shop
She sees her daughter dancing with this music and snatched her up
DONT EVER LEAVE MY SITE
She drags the little girl out and leaves the shop in a warmth that awaits its next customer
Mother and daughter travel down the street
Daughter waves at each person they pass
The flower man and his beautiful bouquet hair piece
The waiter taking a smoke outside the cafe
The old women feeding a stray cat
The three kids skipping rope outside of an adbandon convience store
They travel to the end of the next street, Where mother places daughter next to her on the bench.
Waiting for the next bus.
A jogger and his dog run by
The little girl counts the clouds in the sky
And older couple approaches the bench.
The little girl jumps up to make room
“oh no sweet heart”
“We’re doing just fine”
“Take a seat”
“We insist”
THANKS!
“And so polite”
“How old are you my dear
The girl looks to her mother for confirmation to talk to these strangers
“Oh she’s just shy”
“Oh I bet”
“Well you’re a very pretty young thing”
“Georgous as a goddess”
“And I’m sure just as smart as any princess would be? Am I right”
YES
She speaks with no hesitation
The compliments brought roses to her cheeks
And a smile that stretched to reveal each section of teeth
“OH WOW”
“THAT SMILE”
“what’s the square root of 144”
12!
“OOOOOOOOO”
Collectively everyone exclaims
The bus pulls up
They’re ready to go
And for the first time
All day the little girl is greeted with a white face behind the doors and behind the wheel
How many white faces did you see?
How many black faces?
How many different colors did you imagine?
How many shapes?
What about about bodies?
Who were these people
Who were they to you
If you saw them differently did it change the story
What story?
Why them
What happened
What if this was all just to tell you a story about black faces
Black faces
BLACK faces
Black bodies
Black conciseness
Maybe I wanted to imagine a flower bouquet on a black mans head
Now that he’s black do you see an Afro?
Or is he bald?
Is he identified as he biologically?
Or socially
Why him
Why flowers
What’s his story
What’s the girls story
Who does she become
How does she see the world
What is the world
What world do we want
What world do we see
What world do we hear
What world do we know
What
What
What why
What
Huh
Okay.
Black face
Not paint
Black face
Face
Human
A story of people who reflect what we know and what we don’t know.
The close and the unknown, the unexplored, the ... question mark? What did we really do here?
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Not too long ago I wrote a ramble about galaxies
I think In a different world I did major in astrophysics
In a different world my surface curiosity was a deep seeded passion
I searched the galaxies for answered to the future and found them
Im my life as Nova Rose Greene
I discovered 12 moons floating in our new galaxy
I found 1 planet
And I named it Waytoz
not for anything specific
But because it sounded good
I also discovered many many black holes
It’s my specialty
I’m the black space lady
I’m the one who made it possible for us to touch stars
I’m the one who paved the way for humans to exist beyond our current ways
I Allowed us to observe parts of the universe we knew nothing about
I pointed us in the right direction
And In another life
It makes the difference
In another life many many young women take to the stars
Many young women travel beyond their blocks, their states, their countries, their worlds
Many young people dream of infinite possibilities
And space gave them the opportunity to discover Beyond the infinite
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I feel blue
I feel like a blue beam that emits bits of teal and cream
I feel like my source is hot pink
And it’s burns so bright that it appears white
I feel like my innards are exploding
so Over zealous with joyful energy that I can feel the protons and electrons dividing and multiplying
I can feel my muscles twitch and stretch warming up to a pinkish mauve and contorting into a lavender that drips with burnt blood
Blue
Blue
I am feeling blue
Deep deep oceans shades of shimmering mournful illustrious blue
I am feeling like a galaxy
Like a corner of a galaxy
Like the bend of the edge of a galaxy
Turning into the newest movement of the century
I am feeling
A revolution of feelings
I am feeling like something the English language cannot put into words
I am feeling endless and contained
Somersaults
Bommerangs
And aquamarine tangerines
I am feeling blue
But when I look in the mirror
I’m not feeling like anything other than...
My name
I see me
And I see what the world sees
And then I don’t feel like me anymore
Blue became a body
It became skin flesh and bones
Blue is
Not me
I am
Not blue
I am
....
She is an amazing artist too!
what planet is the girl from???? lol
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NIKO RIAM FOR VOGUE PORTUGAL BY ANDREE MARTIS.
When you change, don’t announce it. Just bloom.
I’m not okay
I quit my job because a brand new employee made a racist comment and I was sexually harassed as in the same day.
I quit because I was made uncomfortable. Because I do not want to live in fear. I want to be safe.
I made an announcement about it because I wanted other people to know that this was happening and this was not okay.
Everyone told me how proud they were and what steps I should take next to deal with it .
But no one asked if I was okay.
And actually I think one or two people did and my response was yes!
Because I handled it and everyone was proud of me.
But no I am not okay.
I didn’t need to be reminded of every other assault or harassment I was subjected to.
I didn’t need my ptsd to kick in
I didn’t need to be reminded that not everyone sees me as a human and I should be aware of my facticity.
Yea I did the right thing but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
And it still happened.
HAPPY NEW YEARS BOOK LOVERS!!
Who is joining me for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge this year??
Our goal is to read 30 books by Black women in 2019, attached are the categories to serve as your inspiration.
Thanks to doing this challenge last year I managed to read 32 books by Black women, I got some serious food for my mind and heart in the process, I’m excited to go at it again.
Join me!!
Please feel free to share this far and wide, and tag The Free Black Women’s Library in your reads on FB and Instagram!!
(Also use the hashtags so we can stay connected, especially on Instagram)
Looking forward to seeing what great titles people folks come up with and enjoy!!
Wishing all an amazing year of reading that nurtures and encourages the essence of who you are!! Blessings!!
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