Plantation Echoes: A Collection of Original Negro Dialect Poems by Elliott Blaine Henderson - HTML preview

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PAWSON JOHNSON AT DINNER.

He’p you’se’f, mah bruddah,

Jes’ make yo’se’f at home!

’Kaze yo’ am no stranger

To Siss Wiggle Sloam.

Go ’head on dat chicken,

’Kase it tissen skace!

“Doan’ yo’ worry, sistah,

I is in no has’e!

“Lan’ sakes, Sistah Wiggle,

You’ treat me lak er king!

Ha! ha! ’skooze me, sistah,

One mo’ chicken wing!

Tote me few dem waffles,

Chittlins good an’ hot!

Ebbah thing ise eatin’

Trabbles to de spot!

Lawd Gawd! Sistah Wiggle,

I jes’ seed dat possum!

Hiden’ an’ er grinin’

’Hine dat sunflow’r blossom!

’Fo’ I’d let dat possum

Git out o’ mah sight,

Th’ow erside mah Gospel,

To de las’ I’d fight!

Bruddah, kain’t yo’ sortah

Gibb er little toas’?

 

’Deed I kain’t, Gawd knows it,

Whah dey’s possum roas’!

Feed de lambs, mah Sistah,

Whut de good book say!

Yo’s fulfillin’ Scripshah

Treatin’ me dis way!”

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