Guest Poet “Carolee Jenkins”
I heard this poem last Wednesday (3/18/2009) and I was so moved by it I ask Carolee to share it with us:
Carolee Jenkins
Feb 28, 2009
FEMALE EXPERIENCE
styled on poem by Ntozake Shange
She was twelve n walkin home from school
When he showed from out of nowhere
Surprised her when he lifted his shirt/
Pulled out his tiny dick, n smiled as she
Ran home to the mama she knew wd be there/
Sobs in her throat tongue pantin
From runnin harder n she’d ever run before.
She threw open the front door,
Startled her mama who held a hot cookie/
Gurgled with pain as they hugged
Until she cd tell her ma bout that man
And his dick she cd not help seein
When he unzippt his pants n showed it.
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It was many years later,
When she was in her thirties,
She told her mother dear
How much it meant to hr
To watch hr mama phone the police
N they came to the house right away/
To hear what happened
So she could almost/
Feel safe again.
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I think it says something about our society when this poem was so familiar; does anyone else think this is a familiar theme, unfortunately?
Your comments are welcome