<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546367" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beans and Potatoes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seventeen years on the graveyard shift<br>Retetitive work leaves her hands in pain<br>Swollen are her feet, fifty hours a week<br>leaves her body drained<br>Week to week pays of nothing more than minimum wage<br>Making ends meet is a constant strain<br>Beans and potatoes<br>All she has to show for her pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A cigarette on her midnight break<br>As every muscle continues to ache<br>Knowing when arriving home her work is never done....<br>Wake the kids, rush them to school<br>Only then the real work has begun.<br>Grabs her pail to tend the garden crop<br>In the Kentucky mud, only the best potatoes she will shop<br>Put the beans on the stove, peel the potatoes, <br>Feed the children, tuck them into bed<br>Only then her work will stop</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every hour spent in the garden, and on the hard concrete factory floor<br>Every miracle made with the monthly bills<br>Are moments closer to lives her children will never endure<br>No money saved for a rainy day, nor money for college<br>Only by example she can lead, so each child knows<br>To want more out of their lives than beans and potatoes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carl+Leiland">Carl Leiland</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=546367" data-title="Beans and Potatoes de Carl Leiland" data-description="Seventeen years on the graveyard shift Retetitive work leaves her hands in pain Swollen are her feet, fifty hours a week leaves her body drained Week to week pays of nothing more than minimum wage Making ends meet is a constant strain Beans and po..."></div> </div> </div>

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