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"You can wait till lunch/ for a trip to the toilet/ like the rest of them./ If you can't wait, you must be ill./ If your ill, you can go home---/ Just don't bother/ coming back.

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"Work in a garment shop/ is a particular misery/ my brothers will never know./ I cannot do it/ only to fund such a life/ anymore."

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"You stupid/careless girl!/he shouts./You will pay for that yard/of cloth/I cannot/Evelina cries,/please-/we will be on the streets if we cannot pay the rent!"

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" how can I leave this fight/ flit off to college/ when so many still suffer/ when I can feel tension/ like mercury rising"

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"ours is a life of darkness and lamplight/we know that outside the shop/the autumn sun shines-/only we never see it/"

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"We do not speak/ about how tomorrow I will break/ Shabbos, how I will be up/ before dawn/ like every other day/ and go to work."

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"I say,/ they do not allow us/ to use the restroom/ when we need it./I say,/(even though it makes a flush/rise in my face)/they touch us/in innapropriate ways./ I say, they lock the door/ from the outside/so we cannot escape./What if there was a fire?

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"There is no reason for them/ to work us so hard/ to strip/ our dignity from us."

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"The high Holy days begins at sundown/I do not know why/the cutters and pressers/[the men]/are allowed to leave early/so they can be home in time/to pray/to make way\for the new year."

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"a rap on the knuckles/ if i talk/ a clap on the back of the head/ if i laugh/ a smack on the shoulder/ if i so much/ as hum."

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"I could not/ look away/ anymore./ I spoke to the boss,/ sure he would make it right."

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"I am/ only trying not to flinch not to cry out/ not to quiver not to fling those/ hands off curves and creases that/ have only ever known my own two/ hands."

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"My eyes are tired/my backs sore/from sitting for so many hours/in a single day."

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" We settle into our seats/ make ourselves comfortable,/ and I say again/ what I have come to say/ but stronger this time/ for my voice/ is not alone."

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'In this shop/division among the workers/is carefully cultivated."

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You can wait till lunch/
for a trip to the toilet/
like  the rest of them./
If you cant wait, you must/ be ill./
if you are ill, you can go/ home-just don't bother/
coming back."/

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"Starting tomorrow/ i will work seven days a week/ ten hours or more/ each day./ I will earn six dollars/ to bring home at the end of each week./ (though i have to buy/ my own needle/ and thread.)"

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"The foreman knocks it/
to the floor twice,/
yells each time i set my needle/aside/
yo pick it up,/
dust it off."

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"expects the same long hours/the floor/is just as littered/just as dusty/just as tempting/ to an open flame."

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"The foreman crosses the room/
smacks the back of her head./
You stupid /
careless girl!/
he shouts./
you will pay for that yard/
of cloth.

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"I wrestle with my own mind/ and heart./ The time has come/ to take/ what I need/ for myself."

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"Guessing how many sips of water/ I can take without needing the toilet/, until the foremen unlocks the door/ at lunch."

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"but i look around/at the rows and rows of immigrants/heads down/voices silent/and i wish for a better life/did not come/ such a price"

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"When my eyes blur/ return/ to the work before me/ it is as if blood already flows/ from her fingertips/ and the sticky/stain of it/ all over my hands."

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"some of them younger than me/ breathing air clogged with smoke/ from the coal burning stove,/ shoulders hunched/ sleep-starved eyes squinting at the fabric before them/ ears ringing/ with the/ BANG BANG BANG/ of the machines

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"The shops prefer to hire girls/who will work longer days/for less pay."

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"Before the end of our workday/he moves the hands back again/farther this time/to keep us at our workstations even longer."

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"Only after the doors are unlocked/
and we lift our eyes to the clock in/ the square/
do we know for sure/
we have been let out late/
again."

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Dylan, Mady, Meaghan

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Audrey, Sam, Madi

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Clara could work to advance women's rights in America/ help the other factory girls. (she is audacious)

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She could prevent any guilt for herself and have a clear conscience.

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There are terrible working conditions in the factory and Clara could work to improve them.