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Legacies
BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
her grandmother called her from the playground
“yes, ma’am”
“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old
woman proudly
but the little girl didn’t want
to learn how because she knew
even if she couldn’t say it that
that would mean when the old one died she would be less
dependent on her spirit so
she said
“i don’t want to know how to make no rolls”
with her lips poked out
and the old woman wiped her hands on
her apron saying “lord
these children”
and neither of them ever
said what they meant
and i guess nobody ever does
BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
her grandmother called her from the playground
“yes, ma’am”
“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old
woman proudly
but the little girl didn’t want
to learn how because she knew
even if she couldn’t say it that
that would mean when the old one died she would be less
dependent on her spirit so
she said
“i don’t want to know how to make no rolls”
with her lips poked out
and the old woman wiped her hands on
her apron saying “lord
these children”
and neither of them ever
said what they meant
and i guess nobody ever does
This poem is representing independence. A grandmother wants her granddaughter to be independent but she wants to be dependent on her grandmother. "I want chu to learn how to make rolls...i don't want to know how to make no rolls." The girls response is irony because I would think she wouldn't say no to her grandmother since she was polite. i can infer that there was things thought but not said between them two. "...she knew even if she couldn't say that... , and the old woman wiped her hands on her apron..."