Mythology & Folklore
Why Look at Me?
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
What's you lookin' at me fer?
I didn' come here to stay.
I wants dis bug put in yō' years,
An' den I'se gwine away.
I'se got milk up in my bucket,
I'se got butter up in my bowl;
But I hain't got no Sweetheart
Fer to save my soul.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Why Look at Me?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/163/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Why Look at Me?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/163/.
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