Social Commentaries
Learn to Count
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Social Commentaries
Naught's a naught,
Five's a figger.
All fer de white man,
None fer de Nigger.
Ten's a ten,
But it's mighty funny;
When you cain't count good,
You hain't got no money.
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Learn to Count.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/319/.
Chicago
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “Learn to Count.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/319/.
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