Clockwise Cat Strikes Back
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young and unadorned<br />
by Wanda Morrow Clevenger<br />
I was hired by one of<br />
those pushy<br />
pushing forty<br />
pancake face wearing<br />
jangly jewelry women<br />
when I was still very<br />
young and unadorned<br />
I wore a wool pant suit<br />
and a borrowed big ring<br />
she complimented the ring<br />
calculated my breast cup –<br />
unsatisfied I’d barely fill her<br />
smallest available<br />
it was discrimination<br />
before discrimination had teeth –<br />
hiring and firing<br />
for the exact same reason<br />
she should have gone with<br />
one of her own sort<br />
saved my first lifelong<br />
loathing for someone<br />
more worthy<br />
Author bio: Wanda Morrow Clevenger is a Carlinville, Illinois, native. She has<br />
published over 334 pieces of work in 126 print and electronic publications. Her<br />
debut book This Same Small Town in Each of Us released in 2011.
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