A Little-Educated Black Girl Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

A little-educated
That half-read girl,
Does she no house work,
But instead thinks herself
An officer,
A magistrate
Which his father was not,
But she is
That black girl
Whom the beauty bath soap too cannot
Cleanse forth,
So ugly is she
But thinks within herself
A heroine,
A film actress.

As she is the first
To see light of education
In her home
So struts and walks on tip-toe
She the black girl,
The coal black girl,
Ugly and dark-looking,
Coal black maiden,
Half-read and half-educated
Just like a half-wit
Taunting with
Her jibes and strides.