Naturally

Since Naturally Black is Naturally Beautiful 
I must be proud
and, naturally,
Black and 
Beautiful
who always was a trifle
yellow
and plain
though proud 
before.

So I've given up pomades
having spent the summer sunning 
and feeling 
naturally 
free
(and if I die of skin
   cancer
   oh well—one less
   black and beautiful me) 
For no agency spends millions
to prevent my summer's tanning 
and nobody trembles nightly 
with a fear
of lily cities being swallowed 
by a summer ocean
of naturally woolly hair.

But I've bought my can of
Natural Hair Spray—
made and marketed in Watts—
still thinking more
Proud Beautiful Black Women
could better make and use
Black bread.