About this author: E. Joyce Moore is a poet and a writer of numerous articles that have been published by Black Suburban Journal newspaper, American Vision magazine, and Newslink, a professional development publication, including an on-going column "From the Stoop." She has interviewed public figures such as Kwesi Mfume and Ed Gordon and has published her first non-fiction book, ?Gettin? to the Good Wood.? She is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the African American Soul -- a collection of essays recently rated number three on the Essence Non-Fiction Bestseller list for January 2005.

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Done

by E. Joyce Moore
June 2006

got your hair did
extended and blonde
(you know how we do)
gonna' stand in line 'til they call my number
(ooh gurl, hopin' they like me)
forgetting the past
when we stood in line until our number was called
sold to the highest bidder
like BET
want to be on TV
gonna make your momma proud?
no dancing skills required
just be scantily attired
doin' what they tell you
doin' everything they tell you
'cause you gon' to be on TV


for those of you who
want hip hop respected
when all you talk about
is how you get erected
no thoughts recall
'bout how we are all
affected
infected
misdirected
disconnected
by how you represented
me,you, and all the rest...
(just matters that we get paid...it's biz-ness)
You pimp our sisters, mothers,aunts, our women
You make them into what you have become yourselves: whores
so that the virtual reality of television
becomes the mirror image
of the XXX club
on seventeenth street
that no one decent talks about


By the way...who owns YOU?

Other stories By E. Joyce Moore: The Reality of Our Mentality Ramblings Through the Attic of Thought