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.”