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The Fat Black Woman's Instructions to a Suitor


Do the boogie-woogie
Do the hop
Do the Charlestown
Do the rock
Do the chicken funky
Do the foxtrot

Do the tango
Drop yourself like a mango
Do the minuet
Spin me a good ole pirouette
Do the highland fling
Get down baby
Do that limbo thing

After doing all that and maybe mo
hope you have a little energy left
to carry me across the threshold

Written by Grace Nichols

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