"Daily to a profession- paid thinking
and clean hands. She rises
Unquestioning. It's second nature now.
The hours, though all of daylight, suit her.
The desk, typewriter, carpet, pleasantries
are a kind of civilisation, built on money,
of course, but money, now she sees, is human.
She has learned giving from her first chequebook,
intimacy from absence. Coming home
long after dark to the jugular torrent
of family life, her smile
cool gifts for dad as the skin gifts for dad of supermarket apples,
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