Introducing Living Legend:
Nikki Giovanni
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
*Preview an excerpt from one of my favorite poems by Nikki:
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Don’t look now
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
Is it that my nails
keep breaking
Or maybe the corn
on my second little piggy
Things keep popping out
on my face
or
of my life
It seems no matter how
I try I become more difficult
to hold
I am not an easy woman
to want
They have asked
the psychiatrists   psychologists   politicians and
social workers
What this decade will be
known for
There is no doubt      it is
loneliness…
Click here to read the poem in it’s entirety.
Click here to learn more about Nikki Giovanni at the Poetry Foundation.
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