the consciousness of a black woman

i.

i was originally going to call this poem “the triple consciousness of the Black woman” but i.

i realised there are more than three. and i.

i made a conscious choice to live this way and i.

i made the conscious choice to exist in bold, in italics and underlined. but i.

i must still stay lower case. and i i must still stay holier than thou, though more naïve than the oppressor. but i. i can’t put a name to it yet. the consciousness of a black woman i am. her. i. am them we. are. free. We.