Why do you keep working there
For such a low rate of pay
Don't you know you could go
Anywhere and get paid better too?
...
My grandmother was all dressed up nice
In her Sunday going to church clothes
'The man is coming, the man is coming'
she said and made me take a bath,
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In my ears
I can hear the sound
Of my heartbeat
Constant, Sad, and lonely
...
The switch
Long brown rubbery stick
That burn in me many a lesson
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