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Peelin Orange
Peelin Orange - Mervyn Morris
Peelin Orange
Dem use to seh
yu peel a orange
perfec
an yu get new clothes
But when mi father try
fi teach mi
slide de knife
up to de safeguard thumb
I move de weapon like
a saw inna mi han
an de dyamn rind
break
An if yu have de time
yu can come see mi
in mi ole clothes
peelin
from I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2006), copyright Mervyn Morris 2006, used by permission of the author and the publisher.