Lucille Clifton - white lady

February 4, 2010.

Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in Depew, New York. She attended both Howard University and Fredonia State Teachers College. She currently lives in Baltimore.

white lady
a street name for cocaine

wants my son
wants my neice
wants josie's daughter
holds them hard
and close as slavery
what will it cost
to keep our children
what will it cost
to buy them back.

white lady
says i want you
whispers
let me be your lover
whispers
run me through your
fingers
feel me smell me taste me
love me
nobody understands you like
white lady

white lady
you have chained our sons
in the basement
of the big house
white lady

you have walked our daughters
out into the streets
white lady
what do we have to pay
to repossess our children
white lady
what do we have to owe
to own our own at last

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