Look heah! ‘Splain to me de reason
Why you said to Squire Lee,
Der wuz twelve ole chicken thieves
In dis heah town, includin’ me.
Ef he tole you dat, my brudder,
He said sump’n dat warn’t true;
W’at I said wuz dis, dat der wuz
Twelve, widout includin’ you.
Oh! . . . !-
(James Weldon Johnson)
More Poetry from James Weldon Johnson:
- The Rivals (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
- The Prodigal Son (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
- Down By the Carib Sea (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
- Brothers (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
- Fifty Years (1863-1913) (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
- Vashti (James Weldon Johnson Poems)