found poem “The Color Purple”

Why not me ?

“I tell him I can fix myself up for him.”

“He don’t ast How come you his wife? Nobody ast that.”

“Anyhow, they don’t love me neither, no matter how good I is.”

“You got to fight them for yourself.”

“I mean he just brought her here, dropped her, and kept right on running after Shug Avery.”

“I look at women, tho, cause I’m not scared of them.”

“I just be thankful to lay eyes on her”

“ I don’t need no weak little boy can’t say no to his daddy hanging on me.”

“Something you help scratch out my head.”

“Everything I do is fine and dandy to you, Miss Celie, she say.”