The Generation Gap
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A Poem About Women's Work
M, i don't think it has to be either or, but there's definitely something about hearing the fuller humanity of people in your life whom you've probably only experienced through one dimension. Jacob, sure, i we'll find out the source of this in a moment, but ut, just give us the verse. Just gon straight in to traight ean, then we can hear the explanation afterwards. So the title for this poem is women's work. Grandma sits at the end of the bed, where feet, like a bunch of ripe bananas on a branch, hang. His overgrown nails like mountain peaks, on toes like tiny, worn out rocks that used to dance.
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