Mythology & Folklore
A Sick Wife
From Negro Folk Rhymes (1922)
Mythology & Folklore
Las' Sadday night my wife tuck sick,
An' what d'you reckon ail her?
She e't a tucky gobbler's head
An' her stomach, it jes' fail her.
She squall out: "Sam, bring me some mint!
Make catnip up an' sage tea!"
I goes an' gits her all dem things,
But she throw 'em back right to me.
Says I: "Dear Honey! Mind nex' time!"
"Don't eat from 'A to Izzard'"
"I thinks you won' git sick at all,
If you saves pō' me de gizzard."
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MLA
Thomas W. Talley (collector). “A Sick Wife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/73/.
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Thomas W. Talley (collector). “A Sick Wife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/talley/73/.
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