Aunty
When Red left
you with the bills and restaurant
he with the waitress
You carried on, in the trenches, sewing Jean Lang designs for sophisticated ladies by day. Cooking chicken and dumplings and drinking beer to numb the lonesomeness by night.
Organizing with the union, in the trenches with Humphrey, and Stevenson, humbly asking for a living wage for 40 years.
Then buying a Greyhound pass to visit nephews and nieces across the country, before dying.
Aunty, would you be proud of sophisticated grand nieces living in Jean Lang style,
scolding grand nephews about semantics as they philosophize about globalization in splendid homes.
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