Prayer Circle

0:00Hello, my name is Saw Whitley and this is my poem, Prayer Circle. Mrs. Kathy say John going to be all right. Mrs. Leslie say John going to be all right. Miss Brenda say John going to be he all right. Mrs. Linda say going to be all right that John. Mrs. Paula with the big eyes John going to be all right and call me baby girl after. Miss Helen from down 16th Street give me and John our first Bible. She say John he all right. John is going to be all right say Mrs. Gail. Miss Mary she say God is good and John going to be all right. My late grandma Dorothy in my dream say John boy he all right. In her hands covered high yellow in batter from frying us fish for breakfast. Grandma mini Pearl say I gained a little weight and then John boy he going to be all right. Jonathan he all right say Aunt Phyllis with bright lips always beat blood reds or bold shades purple. Ms. and Carol say Father God when she pray and she say John going all right. Aunt Irma and her tea nobody say too sweet if they want to live all right John boy.

1:05Aunt and Aunt Jean are talking again now they say John going to get right. Granny on my father's side her name Daisy she say John going to be cousin Diane say it too if the rain is right then so be John. Aunt Pocahontas with the good hair say John he all right. Aunt is walking with John right now say Mrs. Joyce Mrs. Fanny say all right John and everything she says she means she's so old Mrs. Crystal say all right John. Aunt Blondie got her own line to Jehovah like a him she so say John all right. All Mary God is with John say Mrs. Evelyn as she goes about her business of the Lord. Mama worry herself sick straight into next week say John she say John he all right. To say even if he ain't now he gonna be our John.