How is something a memory if you never forgit?

“I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you jus…”

“A girl takes my tongue, signs her name”

“How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate …”

“Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow…”