Colored Girls Porem Essay Example
The full title of the choreopoem by Ntozoke Shange is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. From the table of contents: dark phrases graduation nite now i love somebody more than no assistance i'm a poet who latent rapists' abortion cycle #1 sechita toussaint one i used to live in the world pyramid no more love poems #1 no more love poems #2 no more love poems #3 no more love poems #4 somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff sorry a nite with beau willie brown a laying on of hands
1. Latent Rapist-Anika Noni Rose
Rapist doesn’t have to be a stranger to be legitimate. Someone you never saw, but if you’ve been public with him, dance one dance, kissed him goodbye lightly, with a closed mouth, Pressing charges would be as hard as trying to keep your legs closed from 5 fools trying to run a train on you these men are friends of ours, who smile nice stay employed and take us out to dinner lock the door behind you, & we are left wit the scares being betrayed by men who know us & expect like the stranger we always thought waz comin that we will submit we must have known women relinquish all personal rights in the presence of a man who apparently could be considered a rapist especially if he has been considered a friend
& is no less worthy of being beat within an inch of his life being publicly ridiculed havin two fists shoved up his ass than the stranger we always thought it would be who never showed up cuz it turns out the nature of rape has changed we can now meet them in circles we frequent for companionship we see them at the coffeehouse wit someone else we know we could even have em over for dinner & get raped in our own houses by invitation a friend
2. Somebody almost walked off with all my stuff ( Loretta Devine)
1. Somebody almost walked off wit alla my stuff & didn’t care enuf to send a note home sayin I was late for my solo conversation or two sizes
1. Latent Rapist-Anika Noni Rose
Rapist doesn’t have to be a stranger to be legitimate. Someone you never saw, but if you’ve been public with him, dance one dance, kissed him goodbye lightly, with a closed mouth, Pressing charges would be as hard as trying to keep your legs closed from 5 fools trying to run a train on you these men are friends of ours, who smile nice stay employed and take us out to dinner lock the door behind you, & we are left wit the scares being betrayed by men who know us & expect like the stranger we always thought waz comin that we will submit we must have known women relinquish all personal rights in the presence of a man who apparently could be considered a rapist especially if he has been considered a friend
& is no less worthy of being beat within an inch of his life being publicly ridiculed havin two fists shoved up his ass than the stranger we always thought it would be who never showed up cuz it turns out the nature of rape has changed we can now meet them in circles we frequent for companionship we see them at the coffeehouse wit someone else we know we could even have em over for dinner & get raped in our own houses by invitation a friend
2. Somebody almost walked off with all my stuff ( Loretta Devine)
1. Somebody almost walked off wit alla my stuff & didn’t care enuf to send a note home sayin I was late for my solo conversation or two sizes