Black Girl's Survival Kit (for life in Copenhagen)--for Jocelyn

There ain’t no place

To get your hair done

If you a Black girl in

Copenhagen.

There ain’t no real

Place to buy make-up too…

They ain’t no hues as

Amber, chestnut or butterscotch.

(White girls don’t need that shit).

And don't forget

that sign

which reads,

"No. I am

not

a

Prostitute!"

All you really need tho’

Is a little shampoo

Conditioner, burnt brown powder

And carnelian colored lipstick.

If it glitters it gold

And if it hard to get your hair done,

Then try to find a brother!

But all you need girl,

In your refrigerator

Is a bag of weed,

A bottle of champagne,

That cooling eye thing

And some nail polish—

And that’s the

Black girl's

Survival kit

For

Life

In

Copenhagen.