Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Vonetta chooses to recite Gwendolyn Brooks's "We Real Cool"for the performance. And she's good, too.
- She practices over and over, until Cecile stomps back to their room and tells her to quit it.
- According to Cecile, that's not even a real poem—she could have done that in her sleep.
- Delphine remembers a time when she bragged about her mother's poetry in school. The teacher didn't believe that her mother was a poet and punished her for telling lies.
- Vonetta is very upset about being told to stop.
- Delphine responds to her sister's upset by criticizing Vonetta for being selfish, saying she's just like Cecile. If Vonetta had to choose between being on TV and going to see her own hypothetical future daughter in a play, she'd choose TV every time.
- Vonetta, Delphine says, would care more about herself than about how her own kids would feel.
- Would not.
- Would too.
- You get the idea. We're betting this has more to do with some latent anger Delphine has at Cecile than her little sis.