Morgan Parker’s “Let Me Handle My Business, Damn” is meant to be read like a song or a rap, not like a book or research paper. In the poem, there is almost no punctuation save one colon. Because of this, readers get to choose when to take their breaths and which words to emphasize. If a reader does this, there is more emotion added through the way that the poem is read and the poem becomes more like a hip-hop rap, a staple of African-American culture.