today is also the centennial of Nina Mae McKinney. here's my 2003 poem abt her:
dice on her bosom
cherries in her hair
Nina Mae McKinney
a bowl of sass
“how you feel big boy?
like my dancin’?”
it was 1929 & her
shimmy
turnd a revival into a
circuit party
it was a generation
before Dorothy
Dandridge
70 years
before Halle Berry
when Nina Mae McKinney
lit up the big screen
& tonite she was
hot
all over again
god I love the movies
1 comment:
great last line
'I love the movies"
me too
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