poem
“But she can work like a man.” “Women work. I’m a man.” “Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.” “But I don’t know how to fight.” “All I know how to do is stay alive.” “He try to give her a compliment, she pass it on to me.” “He look at me. It like he looking at the earth.” “Anyhow, they don’t love me neither, no matter how good I is.” “Then he say, You better git on back to the field. Don’t wait for me.” “Nobody fight for Shug, he say. And a little water come to his eyes.”