The Obama Serenades XX

Birthday Boy: Many Happy Returns

Black is
beautiful in
the eyes of
the black
beholder who
has been
ignored and
spurned and
morphed into a
brainless beast
of burden and
sex-fiend in
the wild and
wanton
fantasies
of blue-eyed
blond men
bored and
cloyed with
having had
too much
fun with
bimbo
blondes….

Opposites,
they say,
have no choice
but to attract
and torridly
latch one
onto
another,
like clam-shells
or bur on
a pile of
cloth,
even as
variety is
also known
to be
the spice
of life….

A mutt,
I recently
learned,
is the spawn
of a black
and
white
mating
game;
Aggrey knew
and said it
best,
jazz
is the
staple
song
of a
mutt,
even as
rhythm-and-
blues is
the very
heartbeat
of a
jiga-
boo….

Black is
beautiful
and
barrier-
breaking in
these Dis-
United States of
America;
black and
proud as
a peacock
frozen in
a frieze….

Forty-eight
is the magic
number;
at eighty-four,
life begins
to lose
its lusty
flair and
soon we are
back in
the raw
womb of
Earth,
where it all
began…

8/4/09

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

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