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Two Old Women: Book Review

One day, I was browsing the bookshelves of my local library looking for something interesting to read. There’s one particular shelf in an adult section of the library that I like to browse all the time, and it’s one that has books of myth, folklore, and fairytales . I eventually found a book that I had never heard of or read before; Two Old Women . Two Old Women is a book written by Velma Wallis . It is an Alaskan legend of the Gwich’in people that Wallis’s mother told her after they had finished collecting firewood (p. xi). According to Wallis, her mother had told her this story because of an earlier conversation they had while collecting firewood (p. X.) Wallis was amazed by the fact that her mother still collected her own firewood despite being in her early fifties, and despite the work being physically difficult for her (p. xii) According to Wallis, the elders amongst her people would work until they couldn’t move or until they died (p. xii). After talking about these things, her ...

Things You Broke

You broke my picture of our family

With Mom, you, my siblings and me,

With us all smiling, carefree,

I thought we were perfect, blissfully.


You broke the trust I had in you,

When I figured out what was true;

You prancing around the street,

With dying harlots, and covering it with deceit.


You broke the trust I had again

When, with the help of Aunt Reagan,

You locked us out of our house

Both us and our Mom, your spouse.


You broke the respect I had for you

After all these things, and more too.

Such as when I learned that, like a flower cut before it could bloom,

You wanted me dead before I came out of the womb.


You want to talk because you think

Your words will blot things out like ink.

But what could you possibly say

That would make all your actions okay?


I will never see you the same way I did before.

I will never let you in again through my life’s door.

I will never acknowledge your existence,

And if I do, I will only see you as a pestilence.


Now it’s my turn to lock you out,

I don’t care if you whine or pout,

I’ll start a brand new life,

Where you won’t be around to cause more strife .


Something new I will create,

Something you will never break,

Something you will never see

For I will keep it hidden, safe with me.

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