“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”

—  Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City
Context: Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.

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