On Mona and Marilyn

All this talk of Marilyn Monroe and Mona Lisa
I descend from Nubian ground; the Queen of Sheba
jumping double dutch with Michelle and Rasheeda
Taraji, Taniqua, Keisha, Bonita
canonize my beauty and then tell me im horrendous
eatin all my magic like its breakfast
Sapphire

here is beauty in my precious
beauty in my body
tho my body's been rejected
desecrated, disrespected and neglected
all this talk of chalky waifs like they perfection
when from my loins is where civilization first erected
yall can stop with all chatter bout that mona and that marilyn
disparagin
what's African
but copycat the pattern
regurgitate my glow and tell me to my face im not desired
rape and pillage my village see my body set a fire
flame
ash
but my smoke will never go
so fuck ya mona lisa and ya marilyn monroe