I Didn't Have Time To Sit Down

There Is Something In Me Maybe Someday To Be Written; Now It Is Folded, And Folded, And Folded, Like A Note In School.

I Have Never Thought I Could Take It, Not Even For The Children. It Is All I Have Wanted To Do, To Stand Between Them And And Pain. But I Come From A Long Line Of Women Who Put Themselves First.

She'd Crack A Joke Sharp As A Tin Lid Hot From The Teeth Of The Can-opener, And Cackle Her Crack-corn Laugh.

The Teaching Is Very Rewarding, And Very Time-consuming, And Very Exhausting. But It's Wonderful. The Community Here At Nyu Is Very Precious To Me.

I'm Probably So Out Of It At My Age That I Don't Know What People Think.