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PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Goodmorning, madam, in your sleepy brown hair—Twist yourself awake, blink and stare!I am lying on the floor,With the old rose-redDressing-gown you woreWhen you went to bed.
Don't look stupid with drowsy blue eyes—Here by the bed is your disguise!You're a gentle wifeAnd a tender mother,And all your lifeYou shall be no other.
Life is a shawl to wrap about your shoulder—Every day warmer, every day older.In half an hourYou'll be dressed,Youth like a flowerWilting on your breast.
Marjorie Allen SeiffertPoetry, A Magazine of Verse


THERAPY
There is a wayOf healing love with love,They say.But I say no!What! Shall pain comfort pain,Fever cool fever,Woe minister to woe?

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