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I certainly have
nothing to add to that.

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I've decided to divide these
up into little categories.

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The first one will
be my childhood.

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In an iridescent time,
my mother, when young,

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scrubbed laundry in a tub.

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She and her sisters
on an old brick

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walk under the apple
tree, sweet rub a dub.

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The bees came round their
heads, the wrens made talk.

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Four young ladies, each
with a rainbow board,

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honed their knuckles,
wrung their wrists to red,

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tossed back their braids,
and wiped their aprons wet.

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The Jersey calf beyond
the back fence roared,

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and all the soft day
swarmed about their pet, buzzed

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at his big brown
eyes and bullish head.

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Four times they rinsed, they said.

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Some things they starched, then
shook them from the basket two

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by two, and pinned the
fluttering intimacies of life,

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between the lilac bushes and
the yew, brown gingham, pink,

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and skirts of Alice blue.

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