Woud you keep a bird in a cage

                                    Feelin Maya Angelou  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Know it

Angelou. I’ve heard the name.

                                       It’s a book, isn’t it?

Autobiography

Not something I’d pursue, read.

    Why

Haven’t given it a thought.

Id recommend it

I’m really not interested.

Sympathy

              By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Maya lifted the line from him

                                Very capably

Claude McKay  Harlem Renaissance

                                           If We Must Die

Poetry.

Jah  Poetry

I don’t read poetry. If I were you I wouldn’t mention you do.

    Poetry

Poetry.

Wha the hells wrong with you

I might ask the same.

Id answer Langston Hughes

They’re black poets?

Jah

You only know black poets?

Shakespeare isnt

I was forced to read him.

His plays

                   His poetry

No.

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Muscular

Carl Sandberg Chicago City of the Big Shoulders

 

 

No

Toldya.

          I don’t read poetry.

You think its effete  Feminine 

You said it not me.

 

  Youre pitiful

2051,  reggaefriday,  12  6. 26

1043,  Saturday,  13  6. 26

Dunbar  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46459/sympathy-56d22658afbc0

McKay https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die

Harlem Renaissance  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Langston Hughes  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes   

Sandberg  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12840/chicago