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From: valerie@sdcc7.UUCP (Valerie Polichar)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: The plain-eyed woman
Message-ID: <1378@sdcc7.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 14:31:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 14:31:44 1985
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The plain-eyed woman who came to scrub the floors
on Wednesdays and Fridays never brought you gifts.
Her rag-rug hands grabbed your arm too tight,
and you stared at the impressions left there.
Always you were in the way.  You could hide, but 
she would find you, and chase you out into the cold yard.
You couldn't understand her hard face or
her slow movements, or the way she stood that last day
she came, red-rubbed fingers in your hair,
her final paycheck wrinkled in her hand.

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