Alice Walker Poems

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
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My desire
is always the same; wherever Life
deposits me:
I want to stick my toe
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When they torture your mother
plant a tree
When they torture your father
plant a tree
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I will keep
Broken
Things:
The big clay
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Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
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(You supply the pictures!)

I get to meditate
in a chair!
Or against the wall
with my legs
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Remember
When we ended
It all
-for a weekend-
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Going out to the garden
this morning
to plant seeds
for my winter greens
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Don’t be like those who ask for everything:
praise, a blurb, a free ride in my rented
limousine. They ask for everything but never offer
anything in return.
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Did you ever understand this?
If my spirit was poor, how could I enter heaven?
Was I depressed?
Understanding editing,
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