The Crack Addict Breaks into Lily’s House (1986) / nicolette bethel

they tell him say
she have money
all white people have money
and she too mean
living alone
in wood
not stone

they tell him say
she too old to notice

they tell him say
when you get inside
look good
she crafty
all white people be crafty
she have it hide

so he get him a candle
and light it
and pry off the back door
and rumble inside

find heself in a kitchen
neat as a bible
and too old to notice

step through into a passage
in a room full of paper
neat as a library
(he still remember library)
and too old to notice

step up to the next room
chesterdrawer with glass drawknob
but the drawers stuff with nonsense
and he cuss

when a light voice start praying
and he tell it to shutup
then the house start a rumbling
while she say her do lord
and he turn tail and run

and he tell them say
she’n too old to notice
and besides
she’n white
she got god