Niki Herd
 

fine black man
-for all beautiful black women
 
 
 

you don’t know  how many times i’ve walked down  the street and saw a fine  black man. fine because he’d talk  a good line or fine  because looking at him makes time  stop  and say well goddamn.  fine because he’d make  your grandma drop the good  book jump a crooked  line holler and whine  at the same time.  how many times  have you walked  down the street and saw a fine  black man skin smooth as wine  and while glancing into  brotherman’s eyes fine  black man refuses to smile and keeps  stepping on cause girlfriend  ain’t no barbie doll.   homeboy straining not to see  the beautiful black reflection  of his own history.

  (c)Herd 2004