A full-time woman

Won't you ever take up being a full-time woman,
it's nothing but menstruation cycles
pills and IUD's, make-up instructions
all abracadabra,
home-made sweetbread and floors
without a scrap, going from one special offer to another.
Living at the mercy of hearsay and chance.
You always have to be
some buttress, waiting with a memo in hand
what comes and why won't it yet.
A pair of mammary glands that can clean the house.
   Sheet laundry is the fate.
Service is fine but what about the socks and panties?

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