Friday, October 20, 2023

Louise Gluck, “A Slip of Paper”

No one taught me how to care for my body.  
You grow up watched by your mother or grandmother.  
Once you're free of them, your wife takes over, but she's nervous,  
she doesn't go too far. So this body I have,  
that the doctor blames me for—it's always been supervised by women,  
and let me tell you, they left a lot out.