Down And Out And Female

August, 1974

There has to be a jail where ladies goWhen they are poor, without nice things, and with their hair down.When their beauty is taken from them, when their hearts are brokenThere is a jail where they must go.Thomas Merton never met this lady named Janice, but he knew her. Janice is in jail, and her face explains his poem. It's slightly puffy, her face, from a short lifetime's ration of sad country songs, roadhouse beer and beauty banished by both. You've seen it. Broad-browed and narrow-chinned. Li...

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