Every Woman's Blues

Read a poem by Silvia Plath
as you get ready for
shopping

Listen to Billie Holiday
as you do
other people's dishes

Read a poem by Anne
Sexton
as you put clean sheets on the
bed

no use crying over
spilled
milk
or drops of semen
for that
matter

read and listen, baby
and be
glad
to have crossed
the 40something
line
without
drowning in drink
or putting
your head
in the oven.