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Writer's pictureAnthony V. Capildeo

I Stand Here Ironing – Tillie Olsen

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ – John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’

 

 

They will welcome refugees

And ask, Who is my neighbour?

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

I stand here admiring

 

The greatest affront to them

a handsome Arab father

laughing   cooking food to share

abundantly   a citizen