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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