Look heah! 'Splain to me de reason 
Why you said to Squire Lee, 
Der wuz twelve ole chicken thieves 
In dis heah town, includin' me. 
Ef he tole you dat, my brudder, 
He said sump'n dat warn't true; 
W'at I said wuz dis, dat der wuz 
Twelve, widout includin' you. 
Oh! . . . !—
James Weldon Johnson
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