Each day is a sway between grift and grindstone.
Each day is a strange one-legged waltz, and they say
a woman's only as good as the worst man
that she lets steal her Sundays and her somedays.
Sit, and I'll offer you sweet tea and wisdom.
Or, go, and I'll show you a smile and the door.
A woman is only as good as the shine
on her floor. I've scrubbed all my footprints away.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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- Maude Lynn
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ---Flannery O'Connor
13 comments:
that she lets steal her Sundays and her somedays. ... my floor ain't very shiny... LOVE this!
Jeezle, Mama Zen. This is--like all your poetry--short and sometimes sweet and other times sharp.
I want some of that coffee you're drinking this morning...
You are good! And I do love your words, as always!
a woman's only as good as the worst man
that she lets steal her Sundays and her somedays..
You speak truth, sister!
I love your poem!
Damn I need to go shine that floor!
Yes, a lot of stolen Sundays...great line~
Oh the eloquence of that disinfected floor. The first line is classic--grift and grindstone sums it up, indeed, but what I especially like is the centering and surety of the last four lines.
This is truly inspired, MZ. Love it.
What sadness, even ironically spoken, how many believe this? What I love about this poem--as is often the case with your images--the intelligence of the images belie the message. Here I like the "one-legged waltz" and the option the narrator gives: "Sit, and I'll offer you sweet tea and wisdom.
Or, go, and I'll show you a smile and the door." I would sit, for sure.
a strange one-legged waltz...what an interesting mental picture....ugh though, the scrubbing away of all trace of you and where you have been gave me a bit of a shiver...
Not all of them. Guess you'll have to mop around me!
^^^oOoo, much the celebrations and the stampings like reindeer feet of my associates! If like I do readings this blog, then reason fractured English also friends will be!
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Oh man, she takes the spammer off just as I was making fun of him.
Great perception in this. Loved it.
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