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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

4.30 · Rating details · 30,536 ratings · 885 reviews

This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color—“extraordinary and wonderful…that anyone can relate to” (The New York Times) and continues to move and resonate with readers today more than ever.

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Feb 19, 2011 Kei As in Keisha rated it did not like it

Shelves: books-i-despise

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I thoroughly understand poetic license and the art of using vernacular in literature. Langston Hughes has taught me well. ;-)

February, 2011
This book is not a novel. It is a choreopoem of fictional stories told by characters who all represent a color worn, i.e. Lady in Red, Lady in Yellow, Lady in Purple, etc. The title alone being the first clue, this is also not a timeless piece. I’ll just get right to why I give this book one star. I despise intentional misspell [EDITED TO CLARIFY A FEW THINGS]

I thoroughly understand poetic license and the art of using vernacular in literature. Langston Hughes has taught me well. ;-)

February, 2011
This book is not a novel. It is a choreopoem of fictional stories told by characters who all represent a color worn, i.e. Lady in Red, Lady in Yellow, Lady in Purple, etc. The title alone being the first clue, this is also not a timeless piece. I’ll just get right to why I give this book one star. I despise intentional misspellings of words. It is one of my more severe pet peeves. I never wanted to read this book in the past because seeing the word “enough” spelled “enuf” irked me tremendously. Throughout the book, all of the poems are told in broken English (because that's obviously the only way to hear a black voice in literature) and lots of words are either misspelled or not spelled at all, for example, “could” is spelled “cd.”

There is an art to capturing the true voice of a character; and if that character is "ill-spoken," then there is a way to transfer that voice and still have it flow nicely as words on a page. I didn't like the way it was done in this piece; however there are many [BLACK] authors who have mastered this technique and have done so beautifully and provocatively -- and not just for the sake of showing a character's inability otherwise.

I don’t like the word “colored” to describe a person. I don’t respect the idea of taking an oppressive word and capitalizing off of it; and capitalizing off of the grief that accompanies the word’s connotation. Apparently, there are only a few stories to tell about "colored girls" and, given the collections of books available to the masses that are along the same order; those stories are all disgusting and sad. These colored girls are tormented souls and maybe they’re so tormented because they refer to and see themselves as “colored,” because honestly, I must profess that being a black woman is really not that big of a deal. In fact, I quite enjoy it and don’t see my skin color as a direct attachment to all things sorrowful, painful, diseased, abused, and oppressed. The book’s title says “For Colored Girls,” but perhaps, this book is not for me. I am not saying my personal life has been all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows, but how many people of ANY shade can say that about their own lives?

“But this is real." I know, I know... and my response to that is this: Women, if this is what you’re constantly attaching yourselves to, then you allow it to become your stigma, thus YOUR reality. Women... WOMEN go through this, NOT just “colored” women. There are so many women who will read these poems and relate to everything except the skin tone. So why is it that some authors have chosen to make universal experiences exclusive to one race and one sex? ”Sing a black girl’s song!” Let’s keep our sorrow alive and let the world cry with us. And then what? We hope that "colored girls" who are actually not children, but grown women, will make better decisions in life? Will they go to college, use birth control and condoms, and stop dating guys named "Beaux Willie?"

People really don't care about this being "real." They read it, say "ooh that's so sad" and go on sipping their lattes, while we stay and fight the preconceived stigmas... the same stories told in various forms of mass media over and over again until one image is indelibly printed in the minds of the masses.

In addition to the aforementioned, main foibles, many of the characters needed to take responsibility for their own poor choices in the scenarios, yet they failed to do so in their own deliveries. For example, the characters Beaux Willie and Crystal, Crystal tells the story. She had been with Beaux Willie since she was thirteen years old. He went away to war and returned crazy and abusive. He was also jobless. Together, they had two children and she worked to support him and her children. At some point, Beaux Willie decided he wanted to marry Crystal, who suddenly realized that she shouldn’t marry him. He was no longer good enough. She told him this while calling him all kinds of names including the N-word. So... he took her children and dangled them out of an open window five stories high. He asked her if she loved him and if so, will she marry him? And Crystal whispered a response... Listen... [Anyone with the smallest dose of common sense knows that you should always go along with crazy people. Tell them whatever they want to hear until they calm down and step out of their moment of craziness]. Well, Beaux Willie didn't like whatever she whispered and in response, he dropped the kids out of the window. He murdered their children.

And this is what everyone is calling realistic? Can it happen? Yeah, I’m sure it can, but I don’t know a black woman on this planet who would have allowed that to happen without a knife being jabbed deep into Beaux Willie’s back. The children wouldn’t have been the only ones murdered that day.

I am also disgusted by the people on the street who stood there and watched the children dangling from the window. No one thought to run into their own house and grab a mattress or something huge and soft for the kids to land on? Or no one thought to gather around underneath where they were hanging, to at least try to catch them? This could have prevented their death and maybe they would have only ended up with twisted ankles or a broken arm.

And so these are the reasons why I do not love this piece. When a fictional story contains extreme, unbelievable, preventive stupidity, I am impatient and completely unsympathetic towards the characters. I am not bribed into feeling emotionally attached simply because I am massivley told that I should be, since I am "of color." ...more

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Apr 25, 2020 Jenna rated it really liked it

Shelves: race, poetry, classics

If there is ever a time in the future when people are able to gather together in groups again, I want to see a performance of For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.

It is beautiful, passionate, real, gritty, lyrical. I felt like I was reading a song.

It's a poem performed by 7 women, each one of them representing a colour of the rainbow, and one the colour brown. They speak of their experiences as Black women, their dreams and their sorrows. Of abortion and AIDS ...more

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Jul 20, 2007 Izetta Autumn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: playwrights-are-sexy

The ish. A pivotal work in theatre. I once heard Ntozake Shange explain that one of her goals as a writer was to break down the English language, to undo, redo, replay, and rework the English language, in such a way that its power for white supremacist goals and idea transfer would be rendered useless. Now that's all types of deep - this idea that language can teach us destruction and prejudice and by deconstructing that language those who have been oppressed can reclaim and enter into the very ...more

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Jan 18, 2020 Paul rated it really liked it

Shelves: reading-women-bingo-2020

This is a choreopoem and is a series of twenty poems for a cast of seven principals: they are Ladies in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and Brown. It expresses the struggles and problems that African-American women face; and amazingly it’s 45 years old now. The poems are linked by music. Subjects addressed include rape, domestic violence, loss, abortion and being abandoned. This is based on Shange’s own experience.
I have read this rather than seen a production of it and obviously it wo ...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Charlie Ramirez rated it really liked it

For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf has been the most profound, interesting, mind- blowing books I have come across this year. This was my first time being introduced to a chore poem, which is simply a collection of poems that have been strategically put together into one novel. One thing I learned from Shange, the author, is the attention to the title of the book. Upon reading the first three words of the title, "For colored girls..." you assume that the word ...more

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Sep 19, 2007 Beth rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Anyone Going Through...

Shelves: blerd-books

This is one of those books I refer too a lot. Like written prayers sometimes say things in a way that resonates so well with me, so too does this book of poetry.

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/
a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/
i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/
in somebody else's cup... ...more

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Dec 09, 2016 Bren rated it really liked it

Shelves: new-york, educational, dark-and-heavy, character-study, social-issues, drama-tearjerker, read-and-reviewed, cultural, better-or-worse-than-expected

“my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender”
― Ntozake Shange, For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

I never forgot this. I first saw the play way back in my childhood years and it's raw power absolutely stunned me. We also had the album. It remains, in my mind, one of the best plays I ever saw.

Do consider reading this book especially if you have not seen the play. ...more

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Feb 06, 2015 Maxwell rated it really liked it

Shelves: drama, owned, black-authors

I NEED to see this as a production. And I also need to reread it because WOW there are so many layers to it.

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Jan 25, 2014 Zanna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: feminism, poetry

'coloured' (minoritised, othered in their skin, colonised OR vibrant, various, multifaceted) 'girls' (infantilised, sexually exploited and pathologised, excluded from woman/lady OR youthful, spirited, free, pure-hearted) , five Black women… speaking in the safe space of loving affirmation between them, poetising rawness of pain and beauty, passion and exhaustion...

No respectability politics. Don't start telling these women what they should have done. These are words of possibility and impossibil ...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Adira rated it liked it

Shelves: african-american-literature, books-about-traveling, coming-of-age, own-a-copy, saw-movie, read-for-school, books-about-characters-with-health, kickbutt-heroines, plays, thought-provoking

To see the full review go to my blog, Introvert Interrupted.

This play was very interesting to read.

Without seeing the work in action, I would have just chalked this read up as an overblown classic, but the visual representation made this piece one of my favorite...movies. ...more

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Sep 23, 2010 Craig Cunningham rated it it was amazing

I read this book a million years ago.Well, to bespecific back in 1975, around the time of its original publication. However, I have read it several more times since then, and I have seen the Play performed more than five times. The play presents an overwhelming expereience that embraces the audience member in a cultural experience of the African American woman and other women in the African Diaspora. The reading of the text and the viewing of the original play present a sometimes bleek, daunting ...more

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May 25, 2014 Liz Janet rated it liked it

Read this before seeing the film, it is worth it. This play is one of the strongest stories about abuse and discrimination, from almost all aspects that I have had the great pleasure of reading.

I have seen many people criticize how the characters were represented, some even claiming that the characters could have taken more “responsibility” for what happened to them, and I am very sure that these people missed one of the messages of the story, that people are flawed, and that sometimes it is har ...more

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Jan 03, 2020 Bobbieshiann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, poetry

“Ever since i realized there waz someone callt a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness in somebody else’s cup.”

My first read of 2020 is a journey that should not be taken lightly. A cheropoem that is for women, written by a woman, and be stopped by no one. Ntozake tells the story of 7 women who have endured sexism, rape, body shaming, racism, and more. These women are represented as colors of the rainbow and are connected as they put on a perf ...more

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Jul 17, 2015 Obsidian rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I have to say that I loved this play. It was a bit weird to read the stage directions along with the poetry that was being said by these characters, but it was quite easy to read and follow.

For colored girls is considered a choreopoem (i.e. there are monologues that also include dance and music) with seven women in different colors speaking to the audience.

The seven women are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple.

Some of t ...more

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Jan 25, 2020 The Artisan Geek marked it as to-read

25/1/20
Plays aren't exactly my forté which is exactly why I'll be reading this for The Black Lit Challenge next month!

You can find me on
Youtube | Instagram | Twitter | Tumblr | Website ...more

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Sep 21, 2016 Aubrey rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reality-check, r-2019, person-of-reality, person-of-everything, shorty-short, antidote-think-twice-read, antidote-think-twice-all, 1-read-on-hand, r-goodreads, reviewed

i loved you on purpose
i was open on purpose
i still crave vulnerability & close talk
& i'm not even sorry bout you bein sorry
you can carry all the guilt & grime ya wanna
just dont give it to me
i cant use another sorry
next time
you should admit
you're mean/low-down/triflin/& no count straight out
steada bein sorry all the time
enjoy bein yrself

3.5/5

I knew I was setting myself up for a less than complete experience by reading this play script rather than seeing the play performed, but after such a lo

i loved you on purpose
i was open on purpose
i still crave vulnerability & close talk
& i'm not even sorry bout you bein sorry
you can carry all the guilt & grime ya wanna
just dont give it to me
i cant use another sorry
next time
you should admit
you're mean/low-down/triflin/& no count straight out
steada bein sorry all the time
enjoy bein yrself

3.5/5

I knew I was setting myself up for a less than complete experience by reading this play script rather than seeing the play performed, but after such a long school period of being trained on the reading of myriad Shakespeare plays, the comparatively inaccessible means of watching specific ones, whether filmed or live, leads me to choose to experience in whatever form I come first upon and worry about better means of exposure later. Plays don't get a lot of traction these days whether on GR or in real life, leastwise to my untutored gaze, so this and A Raisin in the Sun remain remarkable for being some of the best known examples outside of the Shakespearean monopoly, and how outside that monopoly the very structural fiber of this play is. It almost begs to be not seen or herd but witnessed, borderline liturgical in its confessions and damnations and revelations, even tending towards celebrations amongst the deprivations that continue to plague black womanhood near a half century later. My personal rating is helped by this comprehension as much as it is hindered by the form by which this choreopoem comes to me. A later, more holistic performance awaits, but when and by what means I will encounter it, I do not yet know.

This work didn't really start coming together for me till the very end, and it ultimately left me somewhat moved but neither totally blown over or completely in hatred. There's a number of random Internet strangers I've recently come into contact with through a discord group who I know would throw conniptions over the choices of spelling and capitalization Shange makes, but I've read too much and too widely to still be bothered by such trivial nitpicking, so it wasn't the framing that interfered with as much as it was what came with The Bluest Eye, where I acknowledge that my personal experience and that of every white chick under the sun will forever lack the resources, nay, the paradigm needed to encounter this narrative of black womanhood and resonate with it in any way deeper than a murmur near completely superficial with its white washing. Fortunately, the average rating for this work is just fine and likely filled with the recognition of those who have actually seen this performed rather than merely the words on their pages, and as I am committed to accompanying my reading in the same manner, I'm not too concerned about my own lackluster appraisal. These aren't the kinds of pains or pleasures that have buffetted me throughout my own experience, and my recognition of the need for such stories to be told in whatever forms they choose has next to nothing to do with such a simple representation as an honest star rating.

It's early enough in the year for me to be keeping track of the number of books read on the fingers of one hand, and while this work is nowhere near the top, I find it good to stretch my reading faculties so early on. I don't often read plays these days, and this and another work are likely the only representatives of the genre amidst my shelves, leastwise off the top of my head. I don't particularly see myself seeking out more scripts, but I'm hoping this will be ameliorated by my graduating from text to to live performance even if that should take place far further in the future than I unconsciously assume. The 21st century doesn't seem to have been to kind to plays, but that may be sufficient reason to dig the relatively buried examples out from the usual muffled demographics. A project for a time when I'm more in the mood. In the meantime, I have a growing pile of translated behemoths to pin down to my satisfaction, and such projects wait on no woman.

i sat up one nite walking a boardin house
screamin/cryin/the ghost of another woman
who wz missin what i was missin
i wanted to jump up outta my bones
& be done wit myself
leave me alone
& go on in the wind
it waz too much
i fell into a numbness
til the only tree i cd see
took me up in her branches
held me in the breeze
made me dawn dew
that chill at daybreak
the sun wrapped me up swingin rose light everywhere
the sky laid over me like a million men
i waz cold/i waz burnin up/a child
& endlessly weavin garments for the moon
wit my tears

i found god in myself
& i loved her/i loved her fiercely

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Oct 30, 2010 Marlana-Patrice rated it it was amazing

I have seen the play version twice including the touring company with some of the original cast members like the amazing Trazana Beverley. Yesterday, reading the actual choreopoem in its entirety for the first time gave me more insight and understanding of the poets' intentions. There are moments of joy as well as sheer despair in this piece. In other words, Shange covers a wide range of colored girl emotions. Her work is also ground-breaking because of its experimentation with form and content. ...more

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Jul 25, 2014 La Tonya Jordan rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to La Tonya by: Myself

Shelves: favorites

Words that do not truly come to life until you see the theatrical stage version. Life is painfully and joyfully at the same time.

Quote:

little sally walker, sittin in a saucer
rise, sally, rise, wipe your weepin eyes
an put your hands on your hips
an let your backbone slip
o, shake it to the east
o, shake it to the west
shake it to the one
that you like the best

lady in purple
you're it ...more

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Feb 26, 2013 Julie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-books

"This is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but are movin to the ends of their own
rainbows. . . "

AND for poets, lovers of language, and all travelers who seek to find treasure. ...more

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Feb 09, 2015 Kathy-Ann Fletcher rated it it was amazing

I believe every word of this book. It is honest and real and gives a voice to a marginalised but strong set of women. It is definitely one of my favourite books ever. Absolutely a gem of literature.

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Oct 29, 2011 Cassie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: african-american, african-american-fiction, favorites, african-american-literature

This book is so much more powerful than the movie that is made from it. This book showcases beautifully the experience of African-American females. While I never can fully understand their experience as a gay white male I feel that I was drawn into their world by Shange's words. I was able to feel their joy, pain, and suffering. This book moved me to emotions that I didn't believe a book would be able to do and now I find myself sometimes saying one of the poems to myself in my head frequently a ...more

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Feb 20, 2019 Allison Hurd rated it it was amazing

Shelves: authors-of-color, fem-author

Well...god damn.

This is a "choreopoem"--sort of play. It felt a lot like one of the American tragedies, but distinctly Ntozake's take on the plight of being a woman of color. Evocative, rageful, sorrowful, coy and loving, I could almost see the dancers and the lighting direction.

So, so good. I would have loved to have seen it performed!

CONTENT WARNING: (view spoiler) ...more

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Feb 16, 2019 Lisa rated it really liked it

Shelves: poetry, drama, african-american

what i didnt expect this sadday
a kick to my womangut, bleeding out colours
a choreopoem

afire

and now im all bent outta shape in my apartment with my

white walls
white snow
white skin

dead blank canvas being scored by these raw words

i roll over and take it

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Dec 29, 2020 Mariah Roze rated it really liked it

I enjoyed the read and hope to see this on stage at some point.

"From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when ...more

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Jan 28, 2020 Never Without a Book rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This series of poems (choreopoem/monologue) pulled me into a roller coaster of emotions that I wasn’t really prepared for, whew! Seven nameless Black women, only identified by colors (lady red, orange,yellow, blue, green,brown,and purple) talk about their experiences with rape, abandonment, abortion and domestic violence. ⁣
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Based on my knowledge of Shange and her distinctive writing style (she mimicked how real women spoke so she could draw the readers’ in to focus and listen.) I was worried tha ...more

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Nov 28, 2020 CHANDLER rated it it was amazing

I had to read this book for a class, but it was so good!
NOT^ the best poems in my opinion:
- no assistance
- no more love poems (#1-4)
- sorry
- a layin on of hands

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Nov 07, 2010 Pamela rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Anyone

Shelves: afro-american-women-lit, social-agenda-reads, inspirational-reads

"for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" by Ntozake Shange is a powerful choreopoem that explores many different arenas: rape, sexually-transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancy, abortion, murder, etc... It is written in a way that conveys to the reader the physical and emotional stance of the women in the play. While delving into many social topics that seem to plague all women(not just colored girls) today, Shange creates an atmosphere in which these women are m ...more

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Apr 23, 2015 shakespeareandspice rated it liked it

Shelves: drama-n-poetry, classics

Themes - check
Characters - check
Writing - pretentious as hell

Certain words that Shange chooses to spell differently are spoken the same way regardless. I don’t see how one could say could (which she chose to spell as “cld”) any differently than anyone else, whether you are black, white, or green.

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Sep 29, 2019 Sylwia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was asked to watch the film by my employer and was so moved by the poems, I had to read the book. I've been rewatching and rereading and I want to memorize the play. I'll try to separate my thoughts about the two mediums and write a review soon, if possible.

One important note: the way both the play and the movie link domestic violence and mental illness is a problem. I'm a therapist who specializes in domestic violence and a lot of that portion of both is depicting a unique situation rather t ...more

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Feb 16, 2020 Abbie | ab_reads rated it really liked it

I’m grateful to Seji @theartisangeek for hosting the #blacklitchallenge and pushing us out of our comfort zones, and to Anna @never_withouta_book for highlighting this play on her feed! I haven’t read a play since school and I have never read a play that is also a poem, full stop.
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Surprisingly I got on okay with this one. It was challenging but in a good way, and it made me wish I could see a version performed live on stage one day.
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Shange presents us with seven women, all unnamed, referred to b ...more

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Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay) was an African-American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best known for her Obie Award winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.

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“one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
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“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 1/2 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 selifsh 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

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i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self” — 156 likes

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