Thursday, October 14, 2010

Looking at Miss World (Grace Nichols)

Tonight the fat black woman

is all agaze

will some Miss (plump at least

if not fat and black) uphold her name

The fat black woman awaits in vain

slim after slim aspirant appears

baring her treasures in hopeful despair

this the fat black woman can hardly bear

And as the beauties yearn

and the beauties yearn

the fat black woman wonders

when will the beauties

ever really burn

O the night wears on

the night wears on

judges mingling with chiffons

The fat black woman gets up

and pours some gin

toasting herself as a likely win.

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