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Negro Hunter

this nigger too damn dumb to know how much
he's worth. those woods by the thompson place
must be filled with hunters tracking this joe.
first a thousand, then fifteen hundred,
now two thousand." all expenses clear and clean
for his body in the easton jail." sue worrying me
to settle down with another kid coming.
aching hard to get out her mama's house.
how she think i'm gonna make that happen?
ain't got much, don't own no land.
had to borrow this pack of bloodhounds.
six cents a mile, two dollars a day. this pack
smell em a mile off. smart. mean too.
seen em tree a nigger, pull him out a gully,
gnaw him to bleeding. every penny well spent.