Jules Breton, French
Girl Wondering Which Job Title Would Sound Better on Her LinkedIn Page: Associate Director of Harvest Operations or Executive Vice Field Hand?, Date Unknown
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/// One of several works titled “The Gleaner,”
this one shows us her puzzled demeanor.
Stacking up sheaves of wheat
which smell dried up, not sweet,
she’d prefer working where grass is greener.
/// When the harvesters leave fields behind,
then the gleaners take what they can find.
Each girl stoops and she chops
to pick leftover crops,
and their vertebrae get misaligned.
/// This girl dreams of the life she desired,
where her body’s not aching and tired.
As she stops here to think,
she’s betrayed by a fink,
and the foreman informs her she’s fired.