A Life of Quiet Desperation
A Life of Quiet Desperation
By Elton Camp
Sadie appears to be at least forty-five
But fewer than thirty she’s been alive
A normal childhood she never knew
A lifelong ordeal she went through
With her picker parents she did roam
And never experienced any stable home
When the tomatoes are ready over there
They went, hoping for wages more fair
Sadie can just barely read and write
Although her mind is quick and bright
Helping to harvest she couldn’t shirk
So all day long she felt she must work
She felt it was her responsibility to try
To help her family somehow get by
It was at age fourteen Sadie was wed
And too soon came children to be fed
She sits in a shack, children at her side
With nothing else to look to with pride
A better life she wishes she might see
But knows, in fact, that it will never be
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