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Marge Piercy (March 31, 1936 / Detroit, Michigan)
Poems of Marge Piercy
| 1. | A Work of Artifice | 1/3/2003 |
| 2. | Always Unsuitable | 1/3/2003 |
| 3. | Attack of the Squash People | 1/3/2003 |
| 4. | Barbie Doll | 1/1/2004 |
| 5. | Belly Good | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | Colors Passing Through Us | 1/3/2003 |
| 7. | For the Young Who Want To | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | Implications of One Plus One | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | My Mother's Body | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | The Cat's Song | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | The Friend | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | The Morning Half-Life Blues | 1/1/2004 |
| 13. | The Neighbor | 1/3/2003 |
| 14. | The Woman in the Ordinary | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | To Be of Use | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | To the Pay Toilet | 1/20/2003 |
| 17. | Toad Dreams | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | Traveling Dream | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | What Are Big Girls Made Of? | 1/3/2003 |
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To the Pay Toilet
You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar
and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
In bus depots and airports and turnpike plazas
some woman is dragging in with three kids hung off her
shrieking their simple urgency like gulls.
She's supposed to pay for each of them
and the privilege of not dirtying the corporate floor.
Sometimes a woman in a uniform's on duty
