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would you love me if my name was Candace?

If I see one more bare bellybutton under a street light, I'm gonna shoot somebody-- Mark

About Me

Some say/ we're grains of sand/ me and you and billions of people we'll never ever meet/ moving like waves over this planet/ and beyond this planet/ is atmosphere/ beyond that/ moon and sun and stars/ and universe and beyond that...

I believe we're too urbane for the tide/ and at the center of creation/ that infinite moment/ is a card table/ where unborn prophets and their muses/ lively up and settle down/ talk shit like poker players/ in a single suited hand: diamonds/ I see your Apollo's chariot riding dirty/ and raise you Oshun tip-toe-ing down Myrtle Ave/ leaving marigolds in her wake...

The sands were once solid/ earthen, rock, hard/ broken down by time/ yet still we stand/ defiantly staring/ perhaps dumbly into the sun/ no we don't defer to the tide/ we don't wash away/ we savor the burn

It's been said/ that you and I are mere grains of sand/ malleable and movable/ melt down into glass/ /shards reflect light/ catch color and shine/ but really tho/ we're too dynamic/ too much hand clappin to sit/ still and be made over...

We meet on street corners/ like they were riversides/ to talk about Jesus too much/ to not be church folk/ I say/ the sand's too simple/ too benign/ too separate and lacking will/ when we reside at the epicenter of contradiction/ we remember yesterday/ have hopes and fears for tomorrow...

we're the product of beauty's marriage to malice/horribly marvelous/ and unapologetic for being.

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Music, food, wine, beer, books, movies, photography, fashion, design, children's rights, musical theatre, immigration reform, cheese, reparations for slavery, green nail polish, aids/hiv awareness and prevention, orchid cultivation, women's health issues, lions, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... What Pin Up girl are you?
meoww, you're the sex kitten. One pose and you're on fire! No wonder you have all the men drooling over you ;)
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Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

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I'd like to meet:

Someone who won't abuse my bottom!!!!

Music:

...continues to enrich the quality of my life. Dorothy Dandridge & Samy Davis Jr., in Porgy and Bess, film,1955

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Movies:

Carmen Jones, Fresh, Coonskin, Fritz the Cat, anything by Ralph Bakshi, The Royal Tennenbaums, Secretary, Daughters of the Dust, House of Flying Daggers, Enter the Dragon, Goonies, The Princess Bride, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Half Nelson, Fist of the North Star, Ninja Scrolls, House Party, Kiriku and the Sorceress, The Wooden Camera, Old Boy, Amelie, Melier oldies, Sweetback's Bad Assss Song, anything by Pedro Almodovar, Dr. Strangelove...could go on for days...

Television:

what's that? okay...okay, I confess: I watch "All My Children". And "Grey's Anatomy," which is really General Hospital without the gansters and secret agents. And I was addicted to "I Love NY". So sad, but it feels good to share...but really though, Planet Earth is the bomb, especially on HD...

Books:

The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty...Any/All of Nikki Giovanni's poetry...The Known World by Edward P Jones...Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo by Ntozake Shange...Aeschylus...Euripedes...Song of Solomon, Love, both by Toni Morrison...Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston...Cane by Jean Toomer...Hamlet...Much Ado About Nothing...Kindred by Octavia Butler...the Dune series...

Heroes:

Nikki Giovanni, Betty Shabazz, Aya Acey, Samirah Raheem (not me, my grandmother), Josephine Baker, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Curtis Mayfield, once again, I could go on for days...

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Are you a chef? Cuz you keep feeding me soup...

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Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:00 PST

obviously

obviously. of course you think I'm fly. cuz i'm fuckin fly!!! duh!! but I hate the way that you kissed me the way I love to be kissed it isn't fair. of course you like my voice that's why i i'm a sing...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:23:00 PST

new jazz you (praise be to lolo!!)

new jazz you new jazz you got no time to fret for you new jazz you new jazz you got too much pressin and curlin to do new jazz you new jazz you ain't 'nuf time in the world can't waste it on you new...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:16:00 PST

Self Improvement

I masturbate. with five fingers sneaking off to corners for discounts against my soul in clothes permanently borrowed for the occasion. I told you I love you as part of my self-improvement campaign to...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:41:00 PST

i give thanks for you

I am in awe.  Absolute, breath-taking awe.  I'd say I"m speechless, but that's obviously untrue--I'm writing this, aren't I?  Anyhow, I cannot believe how blessed I am to share such bea...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Thu, 31 May 2007 09:21:00 PST

personification

mortal men need explications on the way i work that juju you know that voodoo that blue black women do so well with blue black hands no longer working the land but manipulating the stars eating away ...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:41:00 PST

kevin (the journal entry)

i've just showered/ dewy skin, mango butter, and cassandra wilson/ have conspired against me/i  don't think I'll bother getting dressed today... laying across my bed/ i allow my thoughts to wande...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:39:00 PST

untitled

and so she sat and waited she twiddled her thumbs and waited sang to herself because she refuse to feel sorry that the train was delayed again and the bus was fifteen minutes late again   ...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

mercury in retrograde

i mean it's like you can't speak my language and while your logic screams to my inadequacies you emote a whisper   it's like my head has finally grown deaf to you but my stupid heart remembers an...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

betty francis

believing yourself so far beyond the wackness of the moment not only makes you arrogant it makes a tongue itch to call you out, makes lips smack like the crack of a switch to your ass, because trippin...
Posted by would you love me if my name was Candace? on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:25:00 PST