Work, Humor, and Witness

Work, appetite, humor, poverty, sleeplessness, testimony, and Angelou's social eye.

Woman WorkI've got the children to tend / The clothes to mend / The floor to mop / The food to shop / Then the

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The Health-Food DinerNo sprouted wheat and soya shoots / And Brussels in a cake, / Carrot straw and spinach raw, / (Today

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Momma Welfare RollHer arms semaphore fat triangles, / Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips / Where bones idle under yea

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Old Folks laughThey have spent their / content of simpering, / holding their lips this / and that way, winding / th

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InsomniacThere are some nights when / sleep plays coy, / aloof and disdainful. / And all the wiles / that I e

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The LessonI keep on dying again. / Veins collapse, opening like the / Small fists of sleeping / Children. / Me

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Preacher, Don't Send MePreacher, don't send me / when I die / to some big ghetto / in the sky / where rats eat cats / of th

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End of Work, Humor, and Witness

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