DIVAS (inspire me)

 Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughn sing the blues

On the note of a Lucinda Williams tune

Cassandra Wilson’s soulful gust sweeps through 

While Karen Carpenter soothes you under an Apple Badu

If Stevie was the gypsy from the past

Then Janis was the Joplin with the classic belt

Unmasked 

India and Alicia have the fingers with the hook

But a voice is not a voice until Jill Scott takes a look

And even then Lauryn Hill will rhyme you under a bridge

Where Tina Turner is rocking it with the best

No ike to impinge

Except Beyonce’s bootie which is dangerously in love

With Annie Lennox’s sweet dreams cause she does soul like a qualified sin

Make love to a Chaka attack

Break up to an Anita Baker track

Linger on a bjork tangent

Let the beat of Misdemeanor bring it back

Madonna made it big in the 80s because she was a virgin and stuff

And Kate was the Bush we lingered in like the sweetest school crush

- Ramon Te Wake

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