Authors Notes: Hi. I wrote this for my English class about a year or so ago, but I like it enough to post it, so here it is. This my first foray into fanfiction for The Help, so bare with me.
Disclaimer: Literally every word of this poem is taken from the book (The Help). Every word. Literally. I just put it in the order it's in.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Two little girls
Miss Lazy Fingers couldn't go a day
Without having a maid waiting on her
One girl had black skin,
Nobody would believe something you wrote, Nigra
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One girl had white.
White people are not your friends
How come your skin be so pale?
It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person
How come your skin be so black?
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Home Help Sanitation Initiative
What do you think that mean?
Do you ever wish you could…
Change things?
Well, let's see
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Law have mercy. I reckon I'm on do it.
You got hair, I got hair
She fills my ice tea
Like we are the strangers we are meant to be
I got a nose, you got a nose
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Spit. In my face. A Negro in my home. Trying to act white.
I got toes, you got toes
She looked white as anybody, and she knew it too
So we's the same,
When I thought she was white, I treated her fine and dandy.
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Just a different color.
They're different that way, you know
Those people
Negros
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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