Satin ribbon
strokes my hands and pierces my sides
like shards of unfeeling ice
Warm,
Auburn, satin ribbon
Though you've barely spoken,
How you could use the few words you speak to cut;
I somehow understand.
We're terrible people aren't we.
Dodging spot lights like fugitiv...
I don't know if i'd laughed that hard in a while
And that's saying something
Because I laugh alot
It was just so so funny.
Dust. Ohh how dust could be so funny.
But the way you said it there was no way around the laughter.
I am powerless in escaping the comedy
Ohh the boundless...
Archie and Edith said "Those were the days"
A time when men were Gentlemen
And women, Ladies.
Oh sinned humanity if only you would man
the heck
up.
Money is nothing if you don't make it something so don't make it something and it will be nothing.
So children may stop cry...
Because I'm Black.
Of course, fried chicken, Is a part of my essential nutrients
Knowing how to "twerk"
Is clearly
In my blood
Because I'm Black
I may very well know how to speak with some English clarity on the street
But the second I get home, the oh so natural Eboni...