COTTON CANDY ON A RAINY DAY
Don't look now
I'm fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
Is it that my nails
keep breaking
Or maybe the corn
on my second little piggy
Things keep popping out
on my face
or
of my life
It seems no matter how
I try I become more difficult
to hold
I am not an easy woman
to want
They have asked
the psychiatrists psychologists politicians and
social workers
What this decade will be
known for
There is no doubt it is
loneliness
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
(to quote a philosopher)
i haven't done anything
meaningful in so long
it's almost meaningful
to do nothing
i suppose i could fall in love
or at least in line
since i'm so discontented
but that takes effort
and i don't want to exert anything
neither my energy nor my emotions
i've always prided myself
on being a child of the sixties
and we are all finished
so that makes being
nothing
Copyright © 1978, Nikki Giovanni.
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