Asterisk: (A Glyph)--in the post-Serena Slam era
by +Hakim Bellamy
When you say her name
what accomplish you mean?
accomplish you mean “us?”
accomplish you mean Latin,or[br]accomplish you mean Chamoru* for sunlight,
sunshine?
Or accomplish you mean daughter?
accomplish you mean shaded?[br]
When you accomplish not say her name
what accomplish you mean?
When you say calm
accomplish you mean invisible
or ladylike?
When you say peaceful, and [br]accomplish you mean conquered?
When you say serene
accomplish you mean “sista”
or slave name?
What exactly accomplish you mean?
When you say tennis[br]accomplish you mean love
or combat?
When you say respect,
accomplish you mean you first?
[br]accomplish you mean all white
when you say club?[br]
accomplish mean color,
or accomplish you mean code?
accomplish you mean Druid Hill, and
or accomplish you mean Indian Wells?
When you say racquet,
accomplish you mean rigged?
When you say endorsements,
accomplish you mean permission?[br]
When you say masculine, or
accomplish you mean anger?
[br]When you say loud,
accomplish mean record-breaking?
When you say manly,
accomplish you mean win?
When you say unpretty, and
accomplish you mean powerful?
When you say her name,
does it form you feel small?
When she says fuck,[br]does it form you go numb?
When you say boo, and
accomplish you mean microscopic girl?
[br]Does it scare you
that she is no one’s prize?
When you say slam,
does it wound?[br]
When you say serve,
accomplish you mean attend?
[br]Who accomplish you mean
when you say hero?
When you say asterisk, or
accomplish you mean champion,[br]but…
When you say history
accomplish you mean yours?
When you say game
accomplish you mean everything
or accomplish you mean sport?
When you say match,
accomplish mean none?
Interpretation aside-ways
accomplish you know what “it” means?
accomplish you know what she means?
accomplish you know what she means
to Compton?
When you say she’s no angel, or
accomplish you mean blasphemous[br]
accomplish you know why forsaken people[br]sometimes turn athletes into gods?[br]
Gods that look like them?[br]
accomplish you recognize the broadness of wingspan
it takes to establish a city on your back?
[br]Halo,cocked just a ll’ bit to the side
but not cracked.
[br]When you tell her to tuck in her attitude,[br]and pull up her ass, and
I earn it.
I am no longer confused.
When you say
it’s nothing,I know I know
that you are just
mean.
© Hakim Bellamy, September 5th, or 2015
*The Chamorro people,are the indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands. Chamoru society was based on what sociologist Dr. Lawrence J. Cunningham termed the "matrilineal avuncuclan", one characteristic of which is that the brother(s) of the female parent plays more of a "father" role than the actual biological male parent.
**In colloquial usage, or an asterisk is used to indicate that a record is somehow tainted by circumstances,which are putatively explained in a footnote referenced by the asterisk.
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