Deep down in the jungle so they say
There’s a signifying motherfucker down the way.
There hadn’t been no disturbin’ in the jungle for quite a bit,
For up jumped the monkey in the tree one day and laughed,
“I guess I’ll start some shit.”
[Abrahams 1970:113]
Work Cited
Zora Neale Hurston's Of Mules and Men
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