下周一教創意寫作的課，想說有關身體的書寫，決定膽粗粗介紹南美黑人女作家Grace Nichols的”The Fat Black Woman’s Poem”, 單是這兩首，已經叫自己開顏，從日常出發，沒有大道理，用字簡單，有力到位，沒有哀怨，就為自己的黑色、肥胖而舉杯—The fat black woman gets up/and pours some gin/toasting herself as a likely win. cheers 
希望男同學會深思、女同學會微笑。
The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping by Grace Nichols
Shopping in London winter
is a real drag for the fat black woman
going from store to store
in search of accommodating clothes
and de weather so cold
Look at the frozen thin mannequins
fixing her with grin
and de pretty face salesgals
exchanging slimming glances
thinking she don’t notice
Lord is aggravating
Nothing soft and bright and billowing
to flow like breezy sunlight
when she walking
The fat black woman curses in Swahili/Yoruba
and nation language under her breathing
all this journeying and journeying
The fat black woman could only conclude
that when it come to fashion
the choice is lean
Nothing much beyond size 14
Looking at Miss World
Tonight the fat black woman
is all agaze
will some Miss (plump at least
if not fat and black) uphold her name
The fat black woman awaits in vain
slim after slim aspirant appears
baring her treasures in hopeful despair
this the fat black woman can hardly bear
And as the beauties yearn
and the beauties yearn
the fat black woman wonders
when will the beauties
ever really burn
O the night wears on
the night wears on
judges mingling with chiffons
The fat black woman gets up
and pours some gin
toasting herself as a likely win
