Simms Monologue from The mule-bone

From The mule-bone by Langston Hughes

male · defiant · 1:08 min

This sho is a snake town. I certainly can’t raise no chickens for ’em. They kill my little biddies jus’ as fast as they hatch out. And yes … if I hadn’t cut them weeds out of the street in front of my parsonage, me or some of my folks woulda been snake-bit right at our front door. (To whole crowd) Whyn’t you all cut down these weeds and clean up these streets? (HAMBO: Well, the Mayor ain’t said nothin’ ’bout it.) When the folks misbehaves in this town I think they oughta lock ’em up in a jail and make ’em work their fine out on the streets, then these weeds would be cut down. (VOICE: How we gonna do that when we ain’t got no jail?) Well, you sho needs a jail … you-all needs a whole lot of improvements round this town. I ain’t never pastored no town so way-back as this one here.

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