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" without any assistance or guidance from you
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work
charmin charmin
but you are of no assistance
i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selifsh i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair

this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self "

Ntozake Shange , For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf


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Ntozake Shange quote : without any assistance or guidance from you<br />i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day<br />i have been stood up four times<br />i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep<br />forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left<br />town so i cd send to you have been no help to me<br />on my job<br />you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays<br />so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work<br />charmin charmin<br />but you are of no assistance<br />i want you to know<br />this waz an experiment<br />to see how selifsh i cd be<br />if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover<br />if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another<br />if i cd stand not being wanted<br />when i wanted to be wanted<br />& i cannot<br />so<br />with no further assistance & no guidance from you<br />i am endin this affair<br /><br />this note is attached to a plant<br />i've been waterin since the day i met you<br />you may water it<br />yr damn self