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Something for Sundays
For those needing hope…
If I could set this to music it would be
the Soul Meeting of Milt Jackson with Ray Charles
except with Robert Glasper’s jazz on keys played
by the hands of a tired single mother
next to the side of her bed, pleading
in the form of a prayer, with the staccato
of Kendrick Lamar’s voice saying
baby please baby please
We gon be alright & (we will) &
the beat goes on & the beat goes on
it would be
a Jill Scott love letter
With the lyric of Mary Oliver
you don’t have to be good
But it would be as loud as sax
On the 4th line of Charlie Parker’s
Yardbird Suite only set to sister
Sonia Sanchez shouting
yes, I’ve been a woman &
it may never be enough &
& you may never feel like you’re enough
but trust me
Sweetheart
Baby boy
City boy
Country girl
Home bodies
& home-less bodies
YOU ARE ENOUGH
