Black Girl Hymns & Synonyms

Max Smith
4 min readMar 9, 2022
Painting of beautiful Black woman with huge afro, chocolate colored skin, pink lipstick, and a vivid yellow top that is off one shoulder.
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Last call at the bar

[Tap out
in the 4am]

She who nobody wanted
she who nobody wants
bottom of the barrel
Cinderella’s too ugly stepsisters

Mammy
Jemima
Massa’s concubine

Half Miss Mary’s other
half who she couldn’t
live without
‘She family’

She who sweeps the pedestal
She who licks the toilet bowl

Housekeeper
Nanny
Jerk-master
Mac-Maid

Cocksucker
Prostitute
Hoe

Slut
Whore
Whoresluthoe

Mama’s got the blues gal
Gal
Gal least likely to be chosen
Gal last likely to be seen
Gal least likely to be asked
Gal least likely

Wallflower

Bubble butt Jackie

Big lip Shaneequa

The but that never joins sentences
conjunctions sentenced in absentia
‘3-strikes You’re out!
Let’s play ball!

A terminal case of *igger-itis
abolished…

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Max Smith

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