Editor’s Note: As one who reveres the work of this particular author, I initially posted the provocatively titled work because I considered it a profound statement of anatomical love, self acceptance and womanist reclamation.  A short while past the author came to me to request that I take the work down because she was worried said provocative title would give the appearance of being a crass cloying for attention.  I obliged her request at the time and made the entry private, but as I have returned to reread the prose which I do frequently with old posts on my site, I consider it still as profound as my first reading.  I have wanted to quote some of the entry upon a second sharing and have thus renamed the work to something which I hope will be less provocative and afford me an opportunity to showcase the work without having its original title attached to the author’s name in search engines.  As as writer, I know that we are the worst second day critics of our own material and I hope that she will allow me to maintain this very important piece of writing on my site a little while longer.

I am sick and tired of pussy poems
And pussy comments:
‘nigga you is a pussy’
“Dis shit ain’t no pussy poem ’cause it smells good” type statements
Why all the derogatory pussy commentary?
Foremost,
No ‘nigga’ deserves to be called a vagina
Especially when the connotation is negative…
The vagina is all positive
It’s the equilibrium for tidal waves.
With a school of vaginas,
We can squat and rotate our hips
North, East, South, West and North again,
And bring balance to earth.
No ‘nigga’ deserves to be called a vagina
In reference to weakness;
The V-A-G-I-N-A
Is all muscle
In peristalsis motion to bring forth creation…
Strong as ever to do Kegel tricks
And when she’s sick,
Has been raped or violated,
A hurricane brews in the Atlantic
A monsoon somewhere
And tsunamis just off the Indian.
No ‘nigga’ deserves to be called a vagina
Especially since the backward flow of the nile
Is the gravitational pull of her uterus
‘Nigga’ and pussy is a double negative
That cancels each other without a remainder.
The V-A-G-I-N-A
Is far from weak and far from stink
Is the Nefer Atum; One’s sacred seat
And height of ascension
Cannot be divided even by a whole or multiple digit.
The vagina is the stem for the chalice
Where secrets are etched in the womb
And her menstruation signifies a higher level of intuition
No ‘nigga’ deserves to be called a pussy
You hear me?
NO ‘NIGGA” DESERVES to be called a pussy
Especially when the coochie can perform magic
No ‘nigga’ deserves to be called a pussy
But you sure can call a strong brother a vagina