Micknai

"I was born in the Congo.I walked to the Fertile Crescent and built the sphinx.I designed a pyramid so tough that a starthat only glows every one hundred years fallsinto the center giving divine perfect light.I am bad.I sat on the thronedrinking nectar with Allah.I got hot and sent an ice age to Europeto cool my thirst.My oldest daughter is Nefertiti.The tears from my birth painscreated the Nile.I am a beautiful woman.I gazed on the forest and burnedout the Sahara desert.With a packet of goat's meatand a change of clothes,I crossed it in two hours.I am a gazelle so swift,so swift you can't catch me.For a birthday present when he was three,I gave my son Hannibal an elephant.He gave me Rome for mother's day.My strength flows ever on.My son Noah built an ark andI stood proudly at the helmas we sailed on a soft summer day.I turned myself into myself and was Jesus.Men intone my loving name.All praises all praises,I am the one who would save.I sowed diamonds in my back yard.My bowels deliver uranium.The filings from my fingernails aresemi-precious jewels.On a trip north,I caught a cold and blewmy nose giving oil to the Arab world.I am so hip even my errors are correct.I sailed west to reach east and had to round offthe earth as I went.The hair from my head thinned and gold was laidacross three continents.I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal.I cannot be comprehended except by my permission.I mean...I...can flylike a bird in the sky..."-Nikki Giovanni