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The Fabric of Our Cosmos
By M.A. Dennis


I’m not trying to be fly no more. 
All that stuff doesn’t matter…. 
Chanel, Fendi and Gucci 
don’t mean crap right about now.


– Trina Marshall
Facebook post, 4/8/2020, 4:48 pm, Pandemic Standard Time

The devil is a 
Fabricator!

What a lie
making you believe
you had to try
to be fly.


Black woman
you be fly
you stay fly
there is no try
I put that on Baby Yoda.


Black woman 
she makes the clothes; 
the clothes don’t make her.

Oh, no!
Black woman, Chanel 

serves at your pleasure.

You make Fendi trendy.

Gucci 
ain’t nuthin but a double G 
thang playing backwards--
that sound like satan to me.
 
Monogram designers say:
The devil is in the 
liar, liar
a Black woman’s pants
only need pockets (not names) 
to be on fiyah.
Penumbra @ Stan State
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