That'll Do
c.2001 M. Bennett Hooper

Looking in the mirror of present day destiny we
reach stretch and embrace eunuchs of our own making.
And male castration begins with women who devalue themselves. Women who devalue themselves with their proclamations of the decline in price of their body/temples.
Price reduced to pay my rent buy me a car pay my
cell phone bill.
That'll do.

The price of family has been reduced to my third baby's daddy for too many young women with too much time and sperm donors happy at commitless release seek find and plow fertile fields of women for whom that'll do is enough as they swallow old lies that are readily accepted as truth.
That'll do.

Women without men counsel those in relationships to leave the misbegotten and join them in their oneness even if it means struggling alone with junior and moving back home.
Back home to mama who always said he was no good anyway.
and deciding that half a man was better than no man.
That'll do.

Looking at life through a man's eyes who they never attempted to help become a man because when he called them bitch and ho they answered. did you call me baby?
Not realizing that denigrating a man denigerates one person while the denigration of a woman denigrates an entire generation.
That'll do.

No longer seeking progress through gainful redress the new lost women scramble and claw and kick each other for crumbs of humanity even scorned by buzzards in times past as too many proclaim the milk is free and dashed in the street.
The cows are mad anyway so why buy the beef.
And chastity is the name of my neighbor's cat and everybody don't get aids anyway so why trip.
That'll do.

Forever clinging to withered structures many cry that men today are no good and dogs.
For some it is an apt description but one must always remember that ducks do not give birth to sheep and socialization of the young begins in the home.
Love has everything to do with it.
Love has everything to do for it.
Love is liberating earth shaking progress making and never settles for
That'll do.

Time has run out for that'll do Black folks and that'll do other folks cause there will not be another chance for the disposessed to make a living by being oppressed.
For the time has come for those who willingly proclaim without shame that'll do is no longer enough of anything and everyday is a full and blessed event.
That'll do.

That'll do speaks against compromise of wretched circumstances.