For Sarah Baartman - Nitty Scott

One Two

one two (ah)

Body hurting

Seem the wold is still turning

A witch that would it burn

to be.

and to be woman

To be permanently stuck in the skin of a sinner

like bitter cinnamon

and broken my … into splinters

Is it because i’m magic and my veins are not blue?

Sisters and hoes know the woes is the same

If you, you found me slaying but you still say my name

what if i sang about the woman that he brought at home too

i’ve been crying for my brothers but i cry for me too

even though we were… who taught sun to get melodical

i’m plenty blended but dont call me exotico

like i was half black and half beautiful

its so methodical i find it diabolical

only encrypted in the code its biological

You strip the pride that is rising in my follicles

but these curves are not a caricature for your capitalizing or decolonize me

as a western a metropolis yes down to … mississipi all the way down to the

west

i feel my back is breaking and and.

yanking my chest

the fruit is getting stranger and the streets never rest

but this is for you

Sarah Baartman you’re an art to this marksmen

show you in the town square put you up to