Sammie and Mary by Kimberly Stutevoss

Sammie and Mary by Kimberly Stutevoss

Mary went to private school

Sammie went to the public school down the street.

Sammie stayed in the back,

Observing everything about her classmates

No detail left unknown

From chess club to the football team

Sammie was like a ghost, invisible to all

No matter where she went

As years passed on,

Sammie became the ghost

Little by little she disappeared

No one being able to see her,

Not even her family, her sister, Mary.

The years passed and Mary graduated

Continuing to a four year college

And meeting the man of her dreams

She bore two babies

Naming one after her unknown sister

Mary and her girls lived with her husband, Bill

And the cycle happened again,

Sammie went to private school,

Jill went to the public school down the street

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Poem of the Day: Sadie and Maud

BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Maud went to college.   

Sadie stayed at home.   

Sadie scraped life

With a fine-tooth comb.

She didn’t leave a tangle in.   

Her comb found every strand.

Sadie was one of the livingest chits   

In all the land.

Sadie bore two babies   

Under her maiden name.   

Maud and Ma and Papa   

Nearly died of shame.

When Sadie said her last so-long   

Her girls struck out from home.   

(Sadie had left as heritage

Her fine-tooth comb.)

Maud, who went to college,   

Is a thin brown mouse.

She is living all alone

In this old house.