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Why did the white man think
Jacob would've touched Miss Sally in the big house?
Did the white man think at all?
If only he would've thought, he would've known ...
If only he would've asked, there would've been truth.
But Jacob's healing on a thin straw tick
And the boy and his nigger sailed past Cairo
In a fog from the land,
In a fog of the mind,
And civilization looms all around.
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