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The next one is a
poem that I wrote

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while I was picking apples in
Massachusetts for a living.

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What if the world
stays always far off?

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What if the world
is taken from me,

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if there is no recognition,
my words unheard?

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Kids wanted to
write great poetry

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and I am in the orchard all day.

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The work is too hard and
no one here will do it,

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so they bring Jamaicans.

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The men sometimes
sing on their ladders.

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Named Henry and George.

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Yes boss, they say.

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The bus brought them
late this morning.

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They not wanting to work
because of the cold.

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They walk slowly
through the wet grass.

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Today we are not happy,
they say going by me.

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The grass is wet one to
three hours then dry,

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sometimes everything
is warm and I

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wish the man I know would come
in his car and make love to me.

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We do not speak much
because of the work

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and because I am the only woman.

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They see no women.

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Two months here picking apples,
six in Florida cutting cane.

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At night my body is so tired
I don't want to make love.

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I want to be alone and to sleep.

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It is very beautiful
in the fields

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under the apple trees all day.

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I saw two nighthawks, white
with black wave designs

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counter to the wings.

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The boss saw 200 of them
fly over this valley

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once, going South.

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What if I continue unnoticed?

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Fox's, red and gray,
woodchucks, a pretty rabbit

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on the road in the rain,
confused and afraid,

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running suddenly
toward the lights.

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An apple has all colors, even
blue, much purple and maroon.

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If there would be no recognition
and the world remains far away.

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The leaves are a duller
green than the grass.

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I picked mackintosh, but
there are 40 kinds on the land

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around.

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300 acres near the next town.

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This is autumn in
Massachusetts, not my home.

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I heard of beauty in New
England and the people

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came looking for love.

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Nobody talks to the Jamaicans.

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They are driven to safeway
in the bus and brought back.

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I saw one alone, just
standing by the woods.

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I send money to my
mother if I feel like it,

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he said to impress me.

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About 18.

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He will cut cane for the
first time this year.

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I hear the bosses
are mean, I said.

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We make more money, he
said, it is a longer time.

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lost if there is no recognition?

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Is beauty home?

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Is fear or pain an old
man who drives the truck

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and has a farm of his
own down the road, said?

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I just help during the harvest.

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I have everything except apples.

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Lots of squash.

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It made me happy to know
they still say harvest.

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I am here with them
for the harvest.

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36, a woman, canning
when there's time.

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It will be very cold soon.

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Already there are dark rains.

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