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Junior’s Favorite Chocolate Cake

Kelley Jean White MD

we thought women did nothing
they didn’t work like fathers did

a coconut cake with white snowflake icing
wasn’t work, nor hot-crossed buns
with drizzled sugar and dry flower dusting
nor a roast basted in the oven
six hours, lemon meringue pie,
three other desserts

my mother squeezed fresh orange juice
for my father each morning
while he was lying in bed

he had work to do
she had nothing

all day to clean house
his mother’s tea waiting
in a thin china cup

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