Dey think I is “set” an’ “fo’gee,”
An’ dey lub to sneer an’ laff,
Gaze I duzen fancy black cats
Crossin’ cross mah moon-lit paf.
An’ dey calls me “supahstitious,
Ignant, emptee headed fool,
Relick ob days, dead an’ buried
Befo’ man invented school.”
Dey doan stop w’en black cats cross ’em;
Aftah sun down, sweeps de flo’;
Cum in yore house thoo de parlah;
Go out by de kitchen do’;
Hang dair hats erpon de bed-stead;
Sweep dair feets off wid de broom;
Two will sit deysef on one chair,
Dats p’ovidin’ dar is room.
Dey doan feah “thirteen” nor “Friday”;
Dey puts on de lef’ shoe furst;
Lubs to do whut am fo’biddin’,
Jes to aggravate de wurst.
Dey duz dair way; I duz mah way;
Many folks hab many mines;
I jes ain’t de sort, I reckon,
To defi de bad luck signs.
(Raymond Garfield Dandridge)
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