Crooks

    Cards (27)

    • Barn
      Low in a hierarchy
    • cause im black. They play cards in there, but i cant play cause im black
    • they say i stink well you all stink to me
      Bitter tone
    • I could get you strung on a tree so fast it aint even funny
      Lynching
    • Broken harness in process of being mended
      Defined by his job
    • stable buck
    • crooks
      His crooked back , no real identity
    • I aint wanted in the bunkhous and you aint wanted in my room
      Knows his rights to her property
    • Guys dont come in a coloured mans room very much
    • I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick
    • (Candy) stood in the doorway
      Understand segregation
    • A guy needs somebody
      People need compassion and friendship
    • Only coloured man on the ranch
    • I seen guys nearly crazy with loneliness for land
    • for being alone crooks can leave his things about
    • His life is cyclical - unbearable and unbreakable (linement)
    • Meagre yellow light 

      symbolises light hope for crooks yet its limited due to his race
    • Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody gets no land
    • Every damn one of ems got a a piece of land in his head
    • My old man had a chicken ranch

      Dream is in the past
    • Makes good out a bad situation
    • His room Is a sanctuary yet a prison
    • glasses
      Suggests intelligence/curiosity
    • California civil code 1905
      Aware of his rights as a black man in 1930s america
    • you aint got no right in my room
    • Limited power as hes a black man
    • Hapless
      Unlucky
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