mama /Sue / what fell off Battleground POEM /1981

1. sHE LOVED WHITE FOLK /FOR GIVING HER WORK /AND SHE MISTRUSTED THEM FOR NOT PAYING HER ENOUGH / nEWLSON WAS DIfferant / he only had love / HE COME OVER AND SING TO Us /sit and drink coffee /tie the babies shoes and do whatever he had the strength to do / he bought big sticks of perermint downtown and bring us a bag of pieces...