Betty Smith Foley Poems

You, Alexander Rafferty!
You's Mammy's little scum!
Ain't gone ter sleep-jes' lyin dar
Er-suckin' on yo' thum'!
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When I sets down in de evenin' whiles de shades
uv night is low,
An' I wants ter see de faces uv de folks I used
ter know,
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Chris'mus gif'! You's ketched, Marse Jimmy!
Chris'mus gif'! Dat's whut I say;
I's bin up er-ketchin' Chris'mus,
Long since 'fo' de break o' day.
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