Mrs. Yolanda Nicholsen Poet Naat

NONA SATTERFIELD DON'T STOP THE FIGHT JUST STOP THE VIOLENCE

WHO IS NONA NONA WAS MY BEAUTIFUL GRANDMOTHER SHE MARRIED AL SATTERFIELD THAT UNION CREATED BOB SATTERFIELD MY UNCLE MANY WOULD BELIEVE OH HOW WONDERFUL BEING RELATED TO A FAMOUS BOXER THAT MIGHTY OUNCH CAUSED MORE PAIN OUT THE RING FOR THE SATTERFIELD WOMEN AND CHILDREN THAT MIGHTY FIST LANDED HARDER LANDING ON A WOMAN MY GRANDMOTHER SUFFERED BRUTAL BEATINGS FROM AL SATTERFIELD SHE HAS THRE CHILDREN WITH HIM YES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE A CYCLE WORSE OFF COUSINS UNCLES ALL FIGHTING FOR SATTERFIELD FAME THERE REALLY WASN'T ANY MY NONA FOUND REFUGE WITH MY WONDERFUL GRANDFATHER HER HERO CREATED MY DAD MY NONA DESCRIBED GREAT SUFFERING IT DREW NEGATIVE PEOPLE MY NONA LOST HER SIGHT TO BLINDNESS BOB SATTERFIELD SUFFERED EYE RETINA DAMAGING HIS EYE AND THEN THERES ME CAR BOMB CRUSHING MY EYE SOCKET DEFECTIVE AIRBAG THE SPIRIT OF ALL THE FIGHTS BOB LOST LANDING ON MY CHEEK MY JAW BROKE ALL THE BONES HANGING OF MY FACE ALL THE WHILE MY YOUNG SONS BOXING USA BOXING FORT MYERS AFTER LEAVING THE RING URBAN COMMUNITY CHASED THEM SEARCHING FOR BOB SATTERFIELD DECENDANTS I AM ONLY HIS NIECE I MUST SAY MY LIFE CHANGED WHEN EVERYONE NOTICED I HAD SATTERFIELD EYES MY NONA EYES AMAZING THE BOXING INDUSTRY ARE YOU HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ARE YOU HIS DAUGHTER NO JUST A NIECE STRONG GENES I SUPPOSE I ALWAYS RESPONDED WITH OR PERHAPS THOSE SATTERFIELD GENES COMES DIRECTLY FROM NONA MY GRANDMOTHER WHO TOLD ME IN TEARS BOB SATTERFIELD IS YOUR UNCLE BABY HE DIED PURE SUFFERING FROM ST LOUIS MISSOURI CRIED DEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SADLY THESE CONTROLLING ABUSERS USED THE CHILDREN AS POWER AND CONTROL NONA MOVED ON WITH MY POPS I REALIZED WHY SO TOO I DODGE THE FAME BUT I WILL NEVER EVER FORGOT THE PURE SUFFERING MY NONA ENDURED GROWING UP SATTERFIELD THAT MIGHTY PUNCH CRUSHING MY FACE A DEFECTIVE CAR BOMB DEFECTIVE AIRBAG ITS QUITE THE CURSE ACTUALLY BEING RELATED TO A FAMOUS BOXER WE ARE NOT ALL BOXERS SOME OF US READ WRITE LOVE OUTSIDE THE RING DON'T STOP THE FIGHT AL SATTERFIELD CONTROLLED THE BOXING HERITAGE THAT TRADITION CONTINUED WITH HALF COUSINS HALF UNCLES FIGHTING WITHIN THE FAMILY I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MANY IMPOSTERS WAS CLAIMING TO BE ME CORRUPTION WILLING TO HURT MY CHILDREN FOR THE SATTERFIELD BLOODLINE FORGETTING ABOUT MOTHER NONA MY NONA CREATING SUCH A FORCE SHE LOST HER SIGHT FROM THE BEATINGS FROM AL SATTERFIELD DON'T STOP THE FIGHT  JUST PUT DOWN THE FIST BOB SATTERFIELD EYE RETINA WAS BLOWN OUT SO WAS MINE IMPOSTERS GATHERED IN HONDA CAN I TRY OUT FOR THE ROLE OF BOB SATTERFIELD GRANDDAUGHTER TWISTED TERROR OBSESSED WITH FAME I AM SO BLESSED DEEP SADNESS FOR MY NONA THE WOMEN OF ST LOUIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FROM PROFESSIONAL BOXERS THERE IS NO GLORY IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PUNCHING POWERFUL MEN IN THE RING THEN RETURNING TO BRUTAL BEAT A TINY WOMAN MOTHER GRANDMOTHER DON'T STOP THE FIGHT BUT FOR CHRIST SAKE STOP THE VIOLENCE BOB SATTERFIELD WAS VERY BITTER AL SATTERFIELD KELP HIM FROM MY NONA HE EVEN MARRIED IONA IN MEMORY OF NONA BUT IONA COULDN'T NOT FIGHT OFF A STALLION WITH EYES OF TIGER EMOTIONALLY MESSED NOT EVEN LAUREL HARDY AND CONSTELLA SILENT MOVIES CIULD EVER HIDE GREIF SUFFERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MADE BOB SATTERFIELD A BEAST HIS TINY WIFE SHOT HIM OFF OF HER I  AM NONA SUFFERING AS FIMALY ENHANCE THE CURSE WITH SELFISH GREED MARKETING A LIE THE WRING STORY IN LA IN MY BOOK THE HOMELESS MAN WAS THE CHAMP IN THAT MOVIE BOB SATTERFIELD CAN NEVER BE RESURRECTED THE CRUEL BRUTAL BEATING NONA ENDURE TRIED TO KEEP HIM FRIM AL SATTERFIELD GEORGE SATTERFIELD SPOKEN FROM THE FAMILY TREE NONA BIBLE WHILE THIEVES SEARCHED FOR TOPPS CARD FAILED TO FIND THE TRUE WORDS OF A BLIND WOMAN THANK FOR MY POP SERVING IN ITALY MY NONA HERITAGE HE WAS HER KNIGHT STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER 1944 ROME I AM THANKFUL 
FOR MY NONA IONA MY MOM MY AUNTIE NORMA THE MANY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN THE FAMILY WATCHING BOB SATTERFIELD FIGHT ONLY REMINDS ME THAT HE GOT THST PUNCH FROM WATCHING SATTERFIELD BRUTAL BEAT MY GRANDMOTHER MY NONA BLINDNESS BLIND FATE FATE BLOW HIS EYE RETNIA OUT REDEMPTION BLEW MY EYE SOCKET OUT A CAR BOMB THE SIZE OF A BOXING GLOVE EXPODED MY FACE BECAUSE I WAS RESEARCHING MY SATTERFIELD FAMILY HISTORY THE LORD IS MY SHEPARD AND I SHALL NOT WANT FUNNY MY NONA WALKING ONLY BY FAITH BLIND BY A SATTERFIELD PUNCH HEARTBROKEN SHE CONCIEVED THREE SATTERFIELD CHILDREN BEFORE MY POP HER REFUGED HER AND PROTECTED HER BONDED BY MY DADS BIRTH 1942 BEFORE DEPLOYMENT TO ROME ITALY MY NONA FAITH 1944 BLESSING FROM ROME SAINT SEBASTIAN CHURCH VICTORY CHRISTMAS MASS POP ST JOHN XXIII RATZINGER MY POP ON THE RIGHT NO ONE NOTICED MARIO PUZO ON THE OTHER SIDE BLESSINGS POP RETURNED FROM WAR THE COUPLE WAS TRULY BLESSED WITH TWO SONS MY DAD AND MY UNCLE I WONDERED WORRIED FIST WENT OFF IN MY HEAD LOOKING THROUGH MY BLIND NONA EYES WHEN SHE SPOKE OF THE SATTERFIELD THE OTHER HALF HATED EACHOTHER THE MEN IN THE FAMILY BREAKING INTO NONA HOME FOR THE SCORE BOB SATTERFIELD IT BROKE HER HEART SHE WAS THE REAL CHAMP SUFFERING SEVERED BLOWS EVENTUALLY CAUSING BLINDNESS DEEP SADNESS TO BRAIN CANCER SHE DIED IN HER YOUNGEST SONS ARMS MY DADS ARMS  POPS WAS CRUSHED AND BITTER TOO HE BURIED HER IN THE OLD ITALIAN WAY I READING HER OBITUARY POP DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT ALL THE SATTERFIELDS INCLUDING MY NONA OWNS SON HIS GRANDCHILDREN HE ALSO LEFT OUT HER OTHER SON THE OTHER HALF OF GREED ROBBING BIGMOMMA BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T SEE SHE JUST PRAYED FOR EVERYONE 
IT WAS VERY SMALL ONLY MY DAD AND HIS CHILDREN NO UNCLES NO COUSINS FAMILY FUED OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BOXING IN THE RING THEN THE FINALI THE SATTERFIELD PUNCH MY NONA CONTINUED PRAYING BEAUTIFUL BRAVE WOMAN WITHOUT SIGHT SHE TAUGHT ME THE COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT NONA THE CHAMPION OF HER FAITH HENCE HER FATE
WATCHING OVER MY DAD HER BABY BOY MY DAD BIG MOMMA EYES OPENED NO LONGER BLIND FROM HEAVEN EVEN IN DEATH HER THIRD EYE SHINED BRIGHT OVER BUR OAKS CEMETERY AS THE GREED BEGAN UNEARTHING MY DAD THE GRAVEYARD NIGHTMARE ROBBERS LOOKING FOR NONA BUT FOUND MY DAD INSTEAD AT BIG MOMMA BURIAL MY POP STOPPED THE BURIAL TELLING THE CEMETERY OWNER MY NONA WOULD NOT LIKE THIS SPOT SO CLOSE TO CICERO CHAOS COMMOTION THE OWNER REPLIED HE COULDN'T REFUND SINCE THE PROCESS BEGAN MY POP OPENED HIS HANKERCHIEF AND PURCHASED A SECOND PLOT SO ACTUALLY MY DAD WAS BURIED IN BIG MOMMAS ORIGINAL GRAVE SHE WAS PLACED UNDER THE BIGGIEST OAK TREE IRONICALLY UNTOUCHED BY THE GREEDY GRAVE ROBBERS LOOKING FOR NONA LOOKING FOR SATTERFIELD TREASURES NONA GAVE BIRTH TO ROBERT DOROTHY AND MACK WITH HER UNION OF MARRIAGE TO AL SATTERFIELD ST LOUIS MISSOURI FROM THE BOXING INDUSTRY TO THE SATTERFIELD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MY DAD CONTINUED TO PROTECT HIS MOTHER FROM THE GRAVE THE GRAVE ROBBERS UNEARTHED HIS REMAINS IN NONA PLACE 

DON'T STOP THE FIGHT 
JUST STOP THE VIOLENCE 
FAME ENDED IN LA WITH 
RESURRECTING THE CHAMP WHILE IT 
BEGAN IN ST LOUIS MISSOURI GIVING BIRTH 
MY NONA NO CHAMPION RING FOR THAT 
DUE TO AL SATTERFIELD BRUTAL DOMESTIC 
VIOLENCE BEATINGS MY NONA COMFORTED 
ON BROKEN LACKS ON THE PORCH 
SINGING THE BLUES WITH HER COUSINS 
DIZZY GILLESPIE 

FOR MY BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN 
IRISH GRANDMOTHER 
NONA SATTERFIELD
BIGMOMMA FOR WE 
WALK BY FAITH NOT SIGHT

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