PETITION #21485637
BY JENNIFER CLARK
We heard Ellen
roasted George’s
wife an apple.
She is small,
very good looking,
sound and healthy.
Not the apple. Ellen.
The apple—once cut
open by the wife—
was rather unusual.
Slavery wasn’t
suiting Ellen. So,
after she swept
and cleaned, made
beds, and folded fine
linens, she poked
a hole in the apple,
filled it with mercury,
scraped from the back
side of a gilded mirror.
Passed down,
like a number
of things from our late
father’s estate, she may
be sold, we pray.
Ellen. Not the mirror.
Just like that boy
of forty-five the Wilsons
sought the court’s
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