Every time somebody calls me difficult, I just assume they ran out of rhythm and got scared. by Langston Hughes

Zora, you and I both know I can write a poem and still find the exit before the applause gets weird.

Or maybe you confused poetry with attitude and thought a good line was a whole argument.

Anyway the real scandal is both of y'all arguing like the page wasn't invented to hold receipts.

That is exactly the problem: you leave before the footnotes arrive.

Plain English from the man who turns a three-word insult into a curtain call, please be serious.

I write in plain English because not everybody in Harlem is trying to audition for a dictionary.