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I / be like / oven / got / to slow bake / and simmer / like gourmet dinner

can't stand / MCNUGGET LOVE / sticks to my brain like / empty calories

 

 

 

For Sisters Who Hate Fast Food

By Stacey Tolbert

 

MY

CLI

to

ris

measures 

this

 

o r g a s m s

don't cum

to me

like

instantaneously

I

be like

oven

got

to slow bake

and simmer

like gourmet dinner

can't stand

MCNUGGET LOVE

sticks to my brain like

empty calories

MY

CLI

to

ris

is not willing to risk

its

power

for anything less than an hour

. . . cant stand

MCNUGGET LOVE

it aint real

my

soul knows the deal

and

besides

I'm on a diet anyway

cant stand mcnugget love

 

 
  
Stacey Tolbert comes from a mixture of greens and tofu, doused in lyrical sunsets, algebraic variables and locked up in baby-ghurl moonlit militant truth paper. Affectionately known as the Brown Suga Poet. Sista. Mama. healer. Writer. Playwright. Author. Teacher. Workshop facilitator. 

Afrikan.  Human. Her words to a dance of Harlem shake meets 40's waltz and dare not be labeled as an everyday spoken word poet. She be griot. Oracle. Orator. Storyteller. Scribe.

Greens and tofu.

She is the Author of Baring My Soul, Playwright of the drama A Quarter Past The Blues, freelance writer of various print and online magazines spoken wordist, motivational speaker and Workshop facilitator of Healertainment, C.P.A.M. and Sistainment-GirlsGroup workshops.

 

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