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Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter
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Under the lemon, the goblet, the plate of grapes, painterly,
late cubist, by a WPA artist- "the Negro"
her sister knew in Chicago, my Aunt Leah sits:
"Your father giving his atheist mother
a religious funeral with that schmuck rabbi - why?"
She taps her cigarette, neat fingernail, puts it down,
points the back of her head at the painting.
"Your Aunt Sophie wanted you to have it."
Her cigarette smokes up a thin blue-gray plume.
Sophie was a Socialist. "Communist," Aunt Leah says,
tilting her recliner. "I was the Socialist. Sophie went
to the Peekskill Robeson concert with the Negro painter."
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