A sample from Book 4
Leave It All BeContinue reading “‘Leave It All Be’”
ma' lord...be gone
your grace here...so wrong
―stayed on track
non-constant watching back
since I's young
no steady song sung
I's get use to a way
then thes' be's the day
some different mold of clay
readin' I's be laughin'
yes―there in the secon' grade
we's laugh...giggle
what fun we made
I can tell a book mighty fine
it had all stuck in my mind
then came the time
got me all out of line
yes...fourth grade it was
cuz books were a fuss
no longer my lust
I's a bit slow
but stories...they do go
I's 'member the row-boat
―that train that could go
readin' fast and all
―grades began to fall
if they'd just let it be
I'd have straigh b's
now...it's only f's
behind...my skills was left
I's didn't make through the res'
all those long tes'
too much of a reading mess
this way...that way
wish someone had just say
leave it all be
she's fine you see
I know...I know
beings here on the street
isn't good fa' me
but the truth be
I's still there
enjoying reading
in second grade
with a b


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