FOXY

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You never forget your first

Infatuation.

Mine was the big thing

Decades before 

Other honeys 

Entered the picture.

Soul Cinema action queen

Did her own stunts,

Did her own Afro,

Wasted no time

Kicking ass on the big screen.

First of her kind.

The baddest one-chick hit squad that ever hit town!

Mine had no is...

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CONUNDRUM

As a twiggy little boy of 9,

I was so curious

About the bumblebees hovering

Over blood-red roses, flesh-pink roses,

Bushes filled with pale-yellow honeysuckles

That grew in my Grandmother's yard.

So curious, when I reached out to touch one,

That bumblebee stung me with its

Needlelike tail, leaving behind a mark,

Swollen red, painful,

On the caramel ...

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