Maya Angelou
Work, Humor, and Witness
Work, appetite, humor, poverty, sleeplessness, testimony, and Angelou's social eye.
Woman Work
I've got the children to tend
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The clothes to mend
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The floor to mop
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The food to shop
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Then the
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The Health-Food Diner
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots
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And Brussels in a cake,
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Carrot straw and spinach raw,
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(Today
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Momma Welfare Roll
Her arms semaphore fat triangles,
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Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips
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Where bones idle under yea
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Old Folks laugh
They have spent their
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content of simpering,
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holding their lips this
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and that way, winding
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th
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Insomniac
There are some nights when
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sleep plays coy,
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aloof and disdainful.
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And all the wiles
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that I e
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The Lesson
I keep on dying again.
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Veins collapse, opening like the
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Small fists of sleeping
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Children.
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Me
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Preacher, Don't Send Me
Preacher, don't send me
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when I die
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to some big ghetto
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in the sky
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where rats eat cats
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of th
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