Wishes for Sons By Lucille Clifton

i wish them cramps.
i wish them a strange town
and the last tampon.
I wish them no 7-11.

i wish them one week early
and wearing a white skirt.
i wish them one week late.

later i wish them hot flashes
and clots like you
wouldn't believe. let the
flashes come when they
meet someone special.
let the clots come
when they want to.

let them think they have accepted
arrogance in the universe,
then bring them to gynecologists
not unlike themselves.

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This poem talks about how in society the women have to do all the work but they don't get credit for anything. This poem helps people realize how much women actually do and how little they get recognized for doing. It shows that men cannot walk a day in a women's shoes. This calls attention to all the things women have to do that men don't even think of. Men don't realize the struggles women face.