Monday, January 11, 2016

Hey, Y'all I'm Not The Pinata At The Party

[to bullies, past, present and future]

(for Valerie Macon, my fine example)

hey, y'all I'm not the pinata at the Party
so back off, would you? could you
should you

find that the party's not what you had in mind,
there's always strawberry ice cream after
in your own kitchen with the blinds down

I say to myself without rancor.
meanwhile, y'all
there's not that much candy left in here

it's getting dark. and

you should understand that
it's not cool when you're Raggedy Ann
and they keep beating your candy heart

thinking it's their own drum.

mary angela douglas 11 january 2016

P.S. Raggedy Ann writes exquisitely good unraggedy poetry.

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