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All right, so this is
definitely a labor poem.

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This is "A Girl
Leaves the Croft."

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And this is based on the history
of Victorian working women,

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19th century women who
moved from crofts--

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farms-- to working in
factories in England.

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Cottage work.

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The spinner at the door, a halo
of sun, a tidy room behind her.

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Maids at the wheel
sit blithe and happy.

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Such chastity in
the pre-electric,

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or in the moldy flax
under the finger,

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causing Beauty's
allergic reaction.

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We're all framed
in this whodunit.

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A lover waits for hair to be
thrown from a window at dusk.

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A witch holds stolen
braids, singing out

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to the fool, which is us.

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Or we hold other prostheses
against our ears,

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thinking to get ahead.

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Or we are thrown into a
bush, blinded by thorns,

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and the woods our only friend.

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What's more important,
the wheel, or the distaff,

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or finally, the prick?

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Later, a girl leaves
the croft and is

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scalped by an unboxed machine.

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What savages, these Englishmen.

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Then the Mrs. sinks
marriage in a pint.

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"Go feed your own barn."

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Thus, sociology begins.

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To keep the conditions
wretched, men

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argue the loveliness
of the Calico workers.

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And there, theories of
proper carriage-- how

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it's manufactured-- are born.

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Either an elegant, stunted
growth, or the hot stove cure.

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Either way, the lot ignorant,
prejudiced, and sensual.

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Which leads us to a
kind of photography,

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like a loose quaff and white
stockings held at the thighs

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by two unrepentant bows.

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Who produced these
pillars of the community?

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This is art in the age
of ribbon production.

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She stands so still
for the image.

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A flash of pussy.

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The Industrial Age.

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