<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450082" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Widows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mother's playing cards with my aunt,<br>Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game<br>my grandmother taught all her daughters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Midsummer: too hot to go out.<br>Today, my aunt's ahead; she's getting the good cards.<br>My mother's dragging, having trouble with her concentration.<br>She can't get used to her own bed this summer.<br>She had no trouble last summer,<br>getting used to the floor. She learned to sleep there<br>to be near my father.<br>He was dying; he got a special bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My aunt doesn't give an inch, doesn't make<br>allowance for my mother's weariness.<br>It's how they were raised: you show respect by fighting.<br>To let up insults the opponent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each player has one pile to the left, five cards in the hand.<br>It's good to stay inside on days like this,<br>to stay where it's cool.<br>And this is better than other games, better than solitaire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My grandmother thought ahead; she prepared her daughters.<br>They have cards; they have each other.<br>They don't need any more companionship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All afternoon the game goes on but the sun doesn't move.<br>It just keeps beating down, turning the grass yellow.<br>That's how it must seem to my mother.<br>And then, suddenly, something is over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My aunt's been at it longer; maybe that's why she's playing better.<br>Her cards evaporate: that's what you want, that's the object: in the end,<br>the one who has nothing wins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Gluck">Louise Gluck</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=450082" data-title="Widows de Louise Gluck" data-description="My mother's playing cards with my aunt, Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game my grandmother taught all her daughters. Midsummer: too hot to go out. Today, my aunt's ahead; she's getting the good cards. My mother's dragging, having troub..."></div> </div> </div>

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