Summer 1883<\/p>\n
I can’t write good. <\/p>\n
Emma writes for me.<\/p>\n
Some days I am low down sad. A dog chewing his rope to catch a rabbit at field.<\/p>\n
Dad is dead 10 summers, feels a hundred moons. Mom is dead but a few.<\/p>\n
I want to get a dollar and spend my pennies up. The man with yhe peeling paper and cigar ash on the floor had nothing for me.<\/p>\n
One lady offers me food and bed – all I do is lay on my bed. I do what they say. They stay nice that way.<\/p>\n
This is so I can remember<\/p>\n
One day<\/p>\n
One of these wealthy men will take me away.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to forget how the curl of mama’
\ns hair twirled round like steam rising from the coffee.<\/p>\n
I won’t forget bare splintered floors when I have rugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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