by Ethel Mortenson Davis
I am not a sequins person,
so I cut all the sequins off
the shirt I bought.
It took two hours
because each sequin was
knotted and sewn by hand.
The tag said,
”hand sewn garment.”
It had taken the child,
or young woman,
many hours to complete—
piece-work she had perhaps
taken home to make a few
extra pennies.
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