• Cussin’ cuz Sonia Sanchez. . .
• Sharday Cage (bio)

I don’t knowI guess I was waitin’On Sonia Sanchez all alongTo tell me it’s okay to cuss in my poetryFor everyday peoplesAnd for strugglin’ peoplesBecause we all need to say the word fuck every now and thenThe poets are all that’s leftTo be honest about the current daysSometimes poetry needs to be simpleGrittyThe kind found beneath the benches at the bus stops on the south side of ChicagoOr on the curbs of sidewalks in Brooklyn or HarlemCuz life ain’t so refined for them folksThe poetry has to be realMy verses gotta be made up of some fatty tissueCuz the lower middle class prefers more of a fat assMy poetry’s gotta singLike lady dayIt’s gotta blowLike Louis ArmstrongIt’s gotta glow—like these busy city streetsAfter the grey rainI need you to understand meAnd the blues of my peopleA lot of my people are po’But let’s not forget they are poetsWriting their souls every day to work!Walking their poetry like jazzOn the tired rhythms of their feet! [End Page 333]

Sharday Cage is a poet, author, and teacher. She is the author of two books, Death of a Black Star (Sakura, 2011) and Shadows and Silhouettes (Sakura, 2013). Cage received notable success as a bestseller on Amazon for Death of a Black Star, whose passionate prose and rhyme reveal what it’s like to be Black and living in America while having dreams of Africa. Her words debate what it means to be troubled by life, to be inspired by love, and, most of all, to shine brightly as a Black star even though the world tries to dim it.

• Cussin'cuz Sonia Sanchez。。。
• Sharday Cage（生物）

我不知道，我想我是在等在索尼娅·桑切斯一直要告诉我没关系，我的诗歌咒骂对于日常的人民而对于挣扎人民因为我们都需要说一句话他妈的飘飞的诗人剩下的一切老实说，有时候诗歌需要简单粗暴的那种在芝加哥南侧的公交车站的长椅下面发现的那种，或者在布鲁克林或哈莱姆库兹的人行道的路缘上发现的那种生活并没有那么精致他们人的诗歌，必须真正我的诗总得做出一些脂肪组织起来的Cuz中下阶层更喜欢一个胖屁股我的诗歌要像女士节一样唱歌像路易斯·阿姆斯特朗一样要打击像这些繁忙的城市街道一样要散发光芒灰雨过后我需要你了解我和我的人民的忧郁我的很多人都在po'但别忘了他们是诗人，每天写自己的灵魂上班！像爵士乐一样漫步他们的诗歌脚步疲惫的节奏！[结束页333]

Sharday Cage是一位诗人，作家和老师。她是两本书的作者，《黑星之死》（樱花，2011年）和《阴影与剪影》（樱花，2013年）。凯奇（Cage）在《黑星之死》（ Amazon for a Black Star）的畅销书中获得了显著成功，其热情的散文和押韵揭示了黑人的梦想和在非洲生活而在美国的梦想。她的话辩论了生活陷入困境，受到爱的启发以及最重要的是，即使世界试图使它变暗，它也像一颗黑星一样明亮地发光。