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On Not Believing All You Hear

Alice Duer Miller

(”Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and
princesses of our hearts.”—Anti-suffrage speech of
Mr. Carter of Oklahoma.)


“Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
Tell me immediately, where have you been?”

“I’ve been to ask all my slaves so devoted
Why they against my enfranchisement voted.”

“Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
Back to the kitchen, where angels belong.”
Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Are Women People?
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