Multilingualism
I'm an educated woman
I am a self-educated lady
I'm fluent in the streets
I also articulate well
My timberland boots
stand right next to my stilettos
My daisy dukes hang two pants down
from my favorite evening gown
I adore the elegance of a simple white Jasmine in my hair something like Billie Holiday or catch me with my hat turned back like Dej Loaf feeling godly
White is what ignorant call the way I speak
Diving deep into the words of Shakespeare
Wise enough to know Shakespeare was illiterate and could not read
Amelia Bassano Lanier
The dark lady behind Wills plays
I thank you for Othello, you’ve made pages bleed
The only Moorish descendant fellow
to experience your work and remain after your demise and Williams arise
Despite stereotypes
I proudly speak ratchet on my days off
In moments of fun
Twerking to the sounds of machine gun
Kelly Rowland's motivation
So I Slow wine then rewind
Listen to the record play
Madam Butterfly, tragic tale of manipulated love and loss, tears fall as the opera
Whisks me away
My body is fluent in the language of love
Sounds of the merengue
Oh how hips sway
He said my hips are bilingual
She says I must be thorough bread
Of some Caribbean-decent
The way my body can
Glide along the baseline then
SnapBack with ease
Confused them with my
Ballroom dance skill
Or if looks could kill
I'd look more like a machete
Watch as I cut a rug
Dance like I'm the bomb
hit like Hiroshima
My hair defies gravity
As it swings it moves with me
Speaking its language of tangle and curls
I adore that you danced the tango
Tell me know also know the Azonto
Music you're my transport
Bringing to different lands
Providing my body with the language
Of the world
I rode your sound waves into
different continents and countries
Art you are my Anthropology professor
Vango music found your ear
And gave Stevie his sight
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