<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wife of the Mind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sharecroppers' child, she was more schooled <br>In slaughtering pigs and coaxing corn out of <br>The ground than in the laws of Math, the rules <br>Of Grammar. Seventeen, she fell in love<br>With the senior quarterback, and nearly <br>Married him, but—the wedding just a week<br>Away—drove her trousseau back to Penney's,<br>Then drove on past sagging fences, flooding creeks,<br>And country bars to huge Washington State, <br>Where, feeling like a hick, she studied French to compensate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She graduated middle-of-her-class, <br>Managed a Senior Center while she flailed <br>Away at an M.A., from the morass <br>Of which a poet/rock-singer from Yale <br>Plucked her. He loved her practicality; <br>She adored his brilliance. Sex was great.<br>They married in a civil ceremony. <br>He played around, for which she berated <br>Herself, telling friends things were &quot;hunky-dory.&quot;<br>Resentment grew... oh, you said &quot;life&quot;? That's another story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harper+Webb">Charles Harper Webb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354816" data-title="The Wife of the Mind de Charles Harper Webb" data-description="Sharecroppers' child, she was more schooled In slaughtering pigs and coaxing corn out of The ground than in the laws of Math, the rules Of Grammar. Seventeen, she fell in love With the senior quarterback, and nearly Married him, but—the wedd..."></div> </div> </div>

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