Two Poems

By Tina Smith / March 1, 1975

Cover for Southern Exposure's Southern Black Utterances Today cover featuring a woodcut print of a Black man's face gazing upward, by Atlanta artist Lucious Hightower

This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 3 No. 1, "Southern Black Utterances Today." Find more from that issue here.

R.S.V.P.

People ought not

send out

invitations to join

them in pain.

 

JUST MESSING WITH ME

You entered my life at a

Time

When I wasn't bothering

Anyone.

Didn't even

Have the hots

But you came and

Gave me that.

Hey

I wasn't bothering you.

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Tina Smith

Tina Smith lives in Washington, D.C. and is the mother of one very beautiful, teenage daughter. (1975)

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