BILLIE’S HEAVENLY HOLIDAY

She got in and out of life abruptly,

singing soliloquies of haunting lyrical lull and byes.

Pointing to strange fruits and men who abandon her melanated black girl traumagic.

Smiling coyly behind pinned coiled curls, steeled southern magnolias, and & ”BE” attitudes!

Relentlessly Billie clubbed to the point of no return...her bludgeoned imprisoned spirit giving her

blue pain no Holiday!

Written by Valrie Kemp-Davis

On the Occasion of Billie Holiday’s Heavenly Birthday and because my mom revered her talent

best.

April 7, 2022, In the Season of the Pandemic and Protest