Drawing by Judith Wolfe
Betty Ann Matthews

Poem


      A BUNCH OF CHERRIES

      go to work
      slog all day
      with little pay
      ride home in
      smoking car
      and rusting
      doors leak on
      rainy day bash
      head on hanging
      hood but when
      home pretty
      wife wipes per­-
      spiration from
      forehead kisses
      on cheek and
      meal under
      nose makes
      work worth it
      watch the box
      with arms en­
      twined life
      sweet as a
      bunch of cherries...


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