Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford by William Stafford

Author:William Stafford [Stafford, William]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781555973254
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Our Kind

Our mother knew our worth—

not much. To her, success

was not being noticed at all.

“If we can stay out of jail,”

she said, “God will be proud of us.”

“Not worth a row of pins,”

she said, when we looked at the album:

“Grandpa?—ridiculous.”

Her hearing was bad, and that

was good: “None of us ever says much.”

She sent us forth equipped

for our kind of world, a world of

our betters, in a nation so strong

its greatest claim is no boast,

its leaders telling us all, “Be proud”—

But over their shoulders, God and

our mother, signaling: “Ridiculous.”

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