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Mother to Son · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Mother to son. Well, son, I'll tell you. Life for
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  Speaker 1: me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in
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  Speaker 1: it and splinters and boards torn up and places with
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  Speaker 1: no carpet on the floor. Bare. But all the time
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  Speaker 1: I's been a climbing on and reaching landings and turning
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  Speaker 1: corners and sometimes going in the dark where there ain't
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  Speaker 1: been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you sit down on the steps, cause you finds it's
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  Speaker 1: kinder hard. Don't you fall now, for I's still going, honey.
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  Speaker 1: I's still climbing. And life for me ain't been no
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  Speaker 1: crystal stair.