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      March 16, 2018Please, Please, PleaseLolita Stewart-White

      for President Barack Obama

      baby please don’t go
      if you do who will be pleased
      by our cornrows
      the way they swoop down
      our black swan necks
       
      we want you back darlin’
      your grace and ease
      are so damn pleasing
       
      baby please don’t go
      and we’ll do up our dos
      with doo wop
      rock kinky locks
      and knotted crowns
      just for you
       
      please, please, please
       
      honey please
      don’t go
      oh, oh
      we love you so
      your smooth talk
      not a crease in your tone
       
      baby you’re our bridge of light
      between mourning and morning
      you wring the blues
      from our walking shoes
       
      please, please, please
       
      bear witness Barry
      listen to our pleas
      cradle us once again
      please

      from #58 - Winter 2017

      Lolita Stewart-White

      “This poem is after James Brown’s famous song, ‘Please, Please, Please’ where the Godfather of Soul begs a woman to please come home. I was listening to it one night and thinking about President Obama. How I wish we could serenade and beckon him back to the White House.”

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