MadonnaSightings

S.Velvet Noose Presents “Forget Me Not” as told by Angela Crafty (Holiday/World AIDs Day poem) The congregation forgot about me. As they lace their roof top with Christmas lights Lace their grape cigarillo’s with weed They Alzheimer me. The industry decorates magazine covers with African beauties Pulls sheets over me. As I birthed you, you no bigger than here to here- I nurse kings like Hakeem Olajuwon. Prepubescent gums and lips nipping at Madonna ****** Fiending for anything white to consume. Arrange snow on top of coffee tables, cut lines Congress and I bump those lines. Black Friday lines, Walmart lines, new Jordan lines Section 8 lines, unemployment lines. Saw my social security number but didn’t see me. Don’t even want to steal my identity- Scoffing at the existence of me. Shot up heroin White Heron, simplicity and purity. Put some Black heroine super mammy figure up my veins Cause I need the strength of her one thousand naps. And I nap under the Christmas tree Hoping I could be present- Accounted for. Taxing trying to paint myself on a mass American canvas. Canvassing the area with my lazy eye– My ***** eye I realized this was a full nativity scene. A fool’s native scene Of forgotten wooly hair And gathered arrow heads, given five points on a tree top And called the North Star. Ornaments hanging from branches That would soon break and pass over on the new year. You forgot about me as quickly as pine needles dry Never wept for me Swept me under the rug No shallow …

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