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Frozen Cup

Tonja E. Betts
1 min readMar 29, 2021

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Frozen cup
Red-flavored
Sunday school
Highly-favored
Church lady
Holy-rolled
Usher lady
Watchin’ post
Organ playin’
Pass the plate
Pennies, nickels
Sinners pray
After church
Switch-a-thread
Bellygrowl
Skillet bread
Mullet fish
Grease fries
Miller Light
Egg pie
Don’t forget the
Neckbones
Same stove
Hotcomb
Press ‘n curl
Roll it up
Sweat it out
Frozen cup

Hula hoopin’
Hopscotch
Pigeon eyes
Hood watch
Mama, Daddy
Cussin’, fussin’
Uncle, Cousin
Corner hustlin’
Whistle Man
Up the block
Switch-a-blade
Rob a shop
Pennies, nickels
Twenny cops
Hem him up
Pop-a-pop
Mama runnin’
House shoes
Call the Lawd
Shoutin’ blues
Breathe, Baby
Breathe, Baby
Please, Baby
Breathe, Baby
Pubba def
Muffin’ up
Twenny, life
Frozen cup

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Tonja E. Betts
Tonja E. Betts

Written by Tonja E. Betts

Scrabble addict, enthusiastic tea drinker, perfume bottle collector, Prince music lover, poesy paronomasia-ist, happy mom.

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