A middle aged woman
driving underneath a
midsummer thunderstorm
in a Kia hatchback.
She used to be attractive,
but now she doesn’t see
women who look like her
in the magazines these days.
She’s a teacher.
Had her hand chopped off
in a combine
working in cornfields in Kansas
as a teenager.
– Poetry by W.T. tuqMairtin
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