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Best Bacca Poems


Shiny Nickels
Mama ate her collard greens with raw onions, pinching a 
morsel of greens with sweet cornbread, as juicy pork 
neckbones lay naked of meat. 

The sweetness of life, like sweet Kool Aid fills our tummies,
while dishes await scrapes of scraps for the family pet; Tuffy.
A...

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Categories: bacca, black african american, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
10 Dollars Worth
"Fill 'er up?" The attendant asked GranDad while chewing on a wad of 
bacca with the remnants of spittle on his chin just after hocking one.  
"Naw...  just give me 10 dollars worth.  That'll be good, thank ya'."  
"Ok."  He...

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Categories: bacca, dedication, family, funny, loss,
Form: Free verse
Waist Bead Lover
Hey I'm not obsessed, that's not evil..
your mind is just full of evil that you can't see 
beauty in handmade.. 

Don't criticize, just look at your woman's waist 
without a waistband that's a waste of waist..

Buy her "Waist Bead", Let her glow while you stare...

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Categories: bacca, 11th grade, addiction, beauty,
Form: Free verse

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