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DocuSign Envelope ID: FF904CCC-8943-46A2-B042-006AF1407ED4 <br /> Grandma's Kung Fu: Poems/Rants/Essays <br /> "True Master <br /> "Who's the baddest /0W down, mofo round this town?" <br /> -Sho Nuff,The Last Dragon <br /> Innagine Kwai Chang Caine <br /> As a four foot eleven black wornian <br /> Gray hair, gold rirnmed glasses <br /> BL11' not as stiff as David Carradine <br /> Irnagine Gordon Lui <br /> In `i]ie 36 charribers <br /> With a big black pocked: book <br /> Instead of a three section sta,ff <br /> GrPsindrna moved her energy ,frorn -the ground Lip <br /> She practiced in house dresses and stockings in <br /> Gurn bottom Reeboks <br /> Her erripty hand techniques were pinches <br /> To ears and palm strikes -to botl'.onis <br /> Her kitchen broom style was lethal <br /> Lightning, . <br /> Yellow straw descending <br /> Too fast -1-.o duck <br /> Only matched by her green switc ► -form <br /> Swung Bruce Lee quick <br /> She cul-tivated her chi with collards and cornbread <br /> She iiieditated in a lazy-boy <br /> Her glasses just at -the tip of her nose <br /> A National Enquirer in her lap <br /> Her Kung I®u grip held my liand <br /> When we crossed busy streets <br /> She told us that the Nilan&ILIS <br /> (Or republicans) were not to be trusted <br /> Under any conditions <br /> And dernocrats, only as far as you could throw then-i <br /> At-, age 82 she walked through a group of <br /> feenagers with skateboards and painful piercings <br /> Daring 'them to stand in her way <br /> A gallon of rnilk in her right hand <br /> Cocked like a Jet Li sidekick <br /> I-lie crowd made way for the n-iaster <br /> In annals of Shaolin this is called: <br /> The Battle For The Harris Teeter Parking Lot. <br />