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# here rests
- URL: https://poetry101.love/here-rests/
- Published: 2022-05-18T14:18:07.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-18T14:18:07.000Z
- Description: by Lucille Clifton
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Lucille Clifton, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

my sister Josephine  
born july in '29  
and dead these 15 years  
who carried a book  
on every stroll.  
  
when daddy was dying  
she left the streets  
and moved back home  
to tend him.  
  
her pimp came too  
her Diamond Dick  
and they would take turns  
reading  
  
a bible aloud through the house.  
when you poem this  
and you will she would say  
remember the Book of Job.  
  
happy birthday and hope  
to you Josephine  
one of the easts  
most wanted.  
  
may heaven be filled  
with literate men  
may they bed you  
with respect.

Clifton, Lucille. [Mercy](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mercy/oN9lAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, BOA Ed., 2004.