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For: 'Women in my family' Poetry Contest, Sponsored by Soto Poet, June 16, 2022
The women in my family
Clean baby butts, scrubb toilets
Work, go to school, cook dinner
And study for final exams while everyone sleeps
Daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers cut from the same cloth
They take care of their men
They make them wash the dishes and watch babies
While they eat pomegranate sorbet and watch The Bachelor
Or something not-football on Netflix
Our strength and our legacy
Make no mistake
The wife I married, the daughters, and granddaughters she raised
I stand in awe of every day
Copyright © Steven Young | Year Posted 2022
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