Harrison Street Court
Carl Sandburg
I heard a woman’s lips Speaking to a companion Say these words: “A woman what hustles Never keeps nothin’ For all her hustlin’. Somebody always gets What she goes on the street for. If it ain’t a pimp It’s a bull what gets it. I been hustlin’ now Till I ain’t much good any more. I got nothin’ to show for it. Some man got it all, Every night’s hustlin’ I ever did.”