Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,
Some type of supernatural creature.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Cornelius Eady, gender, melancholy, music, race, social commentary, unsettling
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A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Anne Sexton, conversational, gender, magic, poems about poetry, social commentary