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I wrote a couple of poems.

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I write poems sometimes.

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I think poems should be fun.

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And I have days--

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do you have days like this?

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I have days when I'm not so hot.

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Nobody else has days like that?

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I have days when I have
to get myself together.

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And sometimes you have to
psych yourself up right?

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I have days when I think I'll
stay in the house all day,

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because the world shouldn't
have to look at me.

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You know, days like that.

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So I wrote some poems about
how really great I am.

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And I'd like to
read some of them.

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The first one,
something I had to come

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to grips with some years,
ago many of us did.

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I came to grips with
mine a good long time

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ago though, the poem isn't
terribly old, it was my hair.

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This poem is called
Homage to my Hair.

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When I feel her jump up and
dance, I hear the music.

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My God, I'm talking
about my nappy hair.

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She is a challenge to
your hand black man.

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She is as tasty on your tongue
as good greens black man.

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She can touch your mind
with her electric fingers

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and the grayer she do get, my
God, the blacker she do be.

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[APPLAUSE]

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