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I'm feeling a little raw today.
It's one of those can a sista get ahead, catch a break, feel some love, get a hug, a genuine hey how you doin' with no pretense of needing something on the back end of that hello you just gave, can a sista get something other than a fuck you?



I'm feeling a little raw today.
I get up every day and stretch. I said I get up every day and I stretch as I try to break the sleep off of me. Then my smile at thanking God for another day begins to fade as the realities of what my day entails begins to unfold around me.



Get up, quit hitting that snooze. The job you hate but pays your bills you have to get to. What do I do, I get there late. Is it on purpose, am I really that much of a slacker? No, I have crowism in the morning. It doesn't have to be shiney or new, it just has to divert my attention for a second that turns into minutes. I'm LATE! Zoom, zoom I race to work. I'm here. Take this call, do this, do that, can you, can you, can you? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and an extra yes for good measure.



Did you hear what I said?

I'm feeling a little raw today.



FICA has been in my business since I was 15 and now The Terminator is in my business too. What they want with me? Can I get a dinner, a dance, some flowers or something before you play massa and slave with me?



If you still ain't feeling me, I SAID

I'm feeling a little raw today.



I've spent a hundred thousand dollars and then some teaching myself to teach. I'm all done but the jobs are scarce and even if I'm hired, I'll be the first fired. I throw my head back and laugh at that. I laugh a long hardy laugh. Follow the rules, do this, do that, you teach them poor lil chil'rens o'er dere cause we don't know what to do with all the different shades of brown but uh check this out, after you prove to us that you can follow OUR rules do what WE say give us all YOUR money can you teach them brown shades for free?



I'm feeling a little raw today.



Gas is high, mortgages are high, hair processing is high, interest rates are high, my weight is high, my blood pressure is high, my sugar is high, my chloesterol is high, my pisstivity is high...hell I wish I was high -- on a mountain top.



High in the heavens, enjoying what God has given me; whatever, wherever so I don't have to



feel a little raw today.