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The Seamstress

Susie Gharib

The seamstress in the Victorian Age
darning holes in socks
and sewing whatever is frayed
had become on canvas and in literary portraits
a symbol of deprivation, drudgery, and dire singleness.

The darning of socks is no longer the trend
in a modernistic context,
but there are now holes in the psyche
that need to be fixed
by the rectifying needle
and the therapeutic thread.

I anticipate that in the next hundred decades
people will be in desperate need of a new type of seamstress
who sews the fragments of shattered individuals
and making a lot of profit.

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