Little Ladies Keep Your Head Down—Work
Hard—Don’t Ask For a Raise
dig deep what’s
on your mind
Halloween is the
next holiday
goose
bumps on my flesh
on the news equal
pay called a gimmick
by the GOP
mostly
fat white guys in suits
perhaps the idea of equal pay a
hypnotizing tease
head of microsoft while speaking to
a women’s conference
let
Karma give women a raise
uniform response
not good
he is supposed to be the guy with
the brains
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Beautiful Young Black Men
what do they have to look forward to no jobs nowhere to go
do
not pass GO
go
straight to jail
hang on the street
play
pool
Sell a little get by drink liquor
no where to go stick
a needle in the flesh
your son and mine ring a chicken by the neck
it’s a part of the machine close the
schools
build
prisons
we real cool Gwendolyn
Brooks tells us
we got brains but
no trains
it is torture to
be born beautiful young and black
we die soon
we die soon
October 11, 2014
Note: Yes, I think women and minorities are tired of this old song.
