Lady in red
without any assistance or guidance from you
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i’ve left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
so i cd drive 27 ½ miles cross the bay before i go to work
charmin charmin
but you are of no assistance
i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selfish i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair
this note is attached to a plant i’ve been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self
Brookelyn Hawkins
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Dr.Brown
Adv. Comp
7 February 2018
water it yr dam self.
In Ntozake Shange play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow Is Enuf” lady in red express her feelings to a lover. Lady in red has been a loyal
- Spring '18
- Sonia Brown
- It, Ntozake Shange
