Gentlewoman, Hour Thirteen

Gentlewoman

In former ages I would have been discreetly labeled a gentlewoman,
that creature of the growing middle class that could not be defined,
dabbling in domestic arts and essentially unoccupied
but for the supervision of the education of my children in the delicate arts
of how to be essentially unoccupied gentlemen and gentlewomen.

In reality, I am gardener, maid, cook, housekeeper, arborist,
chauffeur, medic, recycler, repurposer, thrifter, hauler, economist,
budgeter, secretary, clerk, cleric, chronicler, photographer, author,
biographer, daycare specialist, and all around domestic engineer,
an essentially unoccupied housewife.

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