He stepped over cabbages and carrot sprouts, beet roots and celery stalks,
only once coming up short and
plunging his heel into
a head of lettuce.
Put hammer to the watch and hourglass;
Be rid of seconds, minutes, hours, days!
“Goodbye. With Love, Maria,” it read. Far too few words to fill the gaping hole in their home.
Let me preface this by saying that I know how you feel at this very moment.
My fingers gripped the handle of the infamously stubborn door and ripped it open.
In Othello, Desdemona, Bianca, and Emilia highlight the differences between the treatment of the rich, white women who face abuse and low-income women of color who face abuse, both in Shakespearean times and in the movements in society right now.