miss

miss?

beg pardon
miss

but this
here barrelhouse

it ain't
fo' white folks

see

yo got yo' own
place
up at Beauregard

if we lets white folks
like yo'self

in here

we jus' be askin'
fo' mo' trouble
than what we got

we be tickled
ta jus' say

come on in
miss

but y'understand

y'gotcha white fellas
don't wanna see

no white girl like yo'self

in here
with colored folk

it ain't no disrespect
ta you

it jus' the way
it is



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“barrelhouse 7” www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16118
“barrelhouse 8” www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16123
“barrelhouse 9” www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16122 (in Community Discussions)
“barrelhouse 10” www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16124 (in Workshop)
“barrelhouse 11” www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16127 (in Workshop)
“barrelhouse 12-16” (end) www.poetrycircle.com/index.php/topic,16128 (in Workshop)

but this
here barrelhouse

it ain't
fo' white folks

see

yo got yo' own
place
up at Beauregard

I love the above.  And sometimes education has nothing to do with it, either.

Pardon me for keep referring my writing to yours but I'm learning much from this.  I'm trying to see why your dialect seems so much more effective than mine.  Don't imagine it's just the what and the way you say it, but both.  My characters aren't necessarily black, though they may sound like it, they're just deep woods or mountain folk.  It's easy to learn about these people.  All I have to do is drive about 10 miles north to a place called 'the Little Country Store' and hang out for a little while.

Will be back and stay with you during these chats.  May even try some writing of my own.  Tom, you're an inspiration.

cheryl

Those people who say there's some kind of hard-wiring in the brain whose bidness is the recognition, and then the application, of intact language systems - must be right, I think, since not only do we know by ear how to say entirely knew things consistently within our own dialect, but also within dialects we're less familiar with, based on so much exposure - when somebody we spoke with for a total of - what? - ten hours, they and their voice and their entire language system are still in there!
Anyway, you're making me think about these things too. But mainly, I'm glad to hear that the voice in the head does seem intact on the page. Thanks, Tom