by J.J. Wren
Huckleberry Finn reflecting on his Pap
Pap warn’t much a man
he’d hurt my mam
when I was young
he’d hurt me too, plenty
but what mattered
he ware my pap
long and the short
betwixt a drinking and a whooping
showed me to borrow and cuss
reckon a man ain’t more or less
a man, we end up ware we ends
all we are is what we been
Pap and me and everyman.
