I HEARD a woman's lips Speaking to a companion Say these words: "A woman what hustles Never keeps nothin' For all her hustlin'. Somebody always gets What she goes on the street for. If it ain't a pimp It's a bull what gets it. I been hustlin' now Till I ain't much good any more. I got nothin' to show for it. Some man got it all, Every night's hustlin' I ever did." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHN BROWN'S BODY by CHARLES SPRAGUE HALL TRANSFORMATIONS by THOMAS HARDY PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES) by ANNE SPENCER THREE FLOWERS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |