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Transcription: [00:15:48]
well then you know, the other children she called to uh and she kinda cuddled in in her arms, and looked up and said, you know, god has been real good to me, for some mothers had just one son, oh then I tell you the burdens lifted from my heart Because, brothers I have none, and a sister who died in childs birth . My mother has only one. But I never will forget that day. for its rooted within my heart. the dying day of an infant babe and the birthday of our god.

[00:17:50]
Its important to emphasize again that the poetry we're hearing from spoons is traditional in style is part of a broader tradition of rhyming and of poetry recitation within the African american community. the poems of this nature which are simply called poems there's no other designation given them are usually based as you heard in experience. There's things that happened to spoons, things that he felt that he went through that he saw, spoons you know its always hard that in stages like this to overcome the stereotypes of poetry and what it is and where you learned and things maybe if you can tell a little bit about the education that you had and where you really came to be doing poetry whether it was from school or whether it was from learning from other people