Just for the women ...
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Ego-Tripping
I was born in the Congo
I walked to the Fertile Crescent and built the Sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
That glows every one hundred years falls into
The center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
I sat on the throne
Drinking nectar with Allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe
To cool my thirst.
My oldest daughter is Nefertiti
The tears from my birth pains created the Nile
I am a beautiful woman
I gazed on a forest and burned out the
Sahara Desert
With a packet of goat's meat
And a change of clothes-
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift-
So swift - you can't catch me
For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son Hannibal an elephant -
He gave me Rome for Mother's Day
My strength flows ever on
My son Noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
As we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself-
And was Jesus!
Men intone my loving name
All praises - All praises
I am the one who would save
I sowed diamonds in my backyard
My bowels deliver uranium
The filings from my fingernails
Are semi-precious jewels
On a trip north I caught a cold and blew my nose
Giving oil to the Arab world
I am so hip - even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east - and had to round off the
Earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
Across three continents
I am so perfect, so divine, so ethereal, so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
Except by my permission
I mean ... I ... can fly
like a bird in the sky ...
~Nikki Giovanni
