the glide and flick of the golden scales
"The Glide and Flick of the Golden Scales," April 23, 2022 (#113)
title from Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison (1992)
Purple Rain (1984)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
The Glide and Flick of the Golden Scales
Let me give you some good advice.
Sleep on it some, maybe it come back
to make some changes. Fast. It's going to affect
who built the pyramids and enslaved the
dark cloud over your head. It's just to make you
a friend without the worst kind of ostracism and
if you think you scared me, you didn't
look over at me. I thought you was finally
trapped here. You'll always have a roof overhead.
I never saw so many milkfed young men;
I got lots of them. They're all different, too
likely to throw whatever it is out the window,
too far gone to see that yet. I told you before
just what they offer me. I don't have nothing.
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From The Thing (1982)