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Homage to my ass
Jessica Jackson

"Spin him like a top" -- Lucille Clifton

This ass is a big ass.

I got it from my momma.

It needs close-fitting underwear

To keep it in place.

It does not keep still

When I run.

This ass is

A rebellious ass.

It does not like to be fondled.

It does not like to be smacked

By high school boys who shout

Hey look at that fat ass.

This ass has never

Been bound by subservience

To the ideal of being smaller.

It is never censored.

It sways to the rhythm

Of its own salsa beat.

I have seen this ass stop a grown man

In his tracks and made him

Look twice.

Jessica Jackson is a poet from Austin, Texas.  Ms. Jackson holds a MFA degree in writing with a concentration in poetry from Ashland University in Ohio.