I was bo		 Ego Tripping - Nikki Giovanni  (1973)

		 I was born in the Congo

I walked to the Fertile Crescent and built the sphinx.

I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light.

                                 I am bad.

                                            I sat on the throne drinking nectar with Allah.

                                            I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe to cool my thirst.

                                            My oldest daughter is Nefertiti.

                                            The tears from my birth pains created the Nile.

                                 I gazed on the forest and burned out the Sahara desert.

With a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes, I crossed it in two hours.

                                 I am a gazelle so swift, so swift you can't catch me.

                                            For a birthday present when he was three, I gave my son Hannibal an elephant.

                                            He gave me Rome for mother's day.

My strength flows ever on.

                                            My son Noah built an ark and I stood proudly at the helm as we sailed on a soft summer day.

I turned myself into myself and was Jesus.

                                 Men intone my loving name.

All praises all praises,

                                 I am the one who would save.

                                            I sowed diamonds in my back yard.

My bowels deliver uranium.

The filings from my fingernails are semi-precious jewels.

                                 On a trip north, I caught a cold and blew my nose 

                                 giving oil to the Arab world.

                                 I am so hip even my errors are correct.

                                 I sailed west to reach east and had to round off the earth as I went.

                                 The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid across three continents.

                                            I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal.

                                            I cannot be comprehended except by my permission.

                                            I mean...I...can fly

                                            like a bird in the sky...