{"title":"The Young Doctor (1916)","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0045","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p> <italic>At noon he smiles and nods</italic> </p> <p> <italic>as he drives by</italic>,</p> <p> <italic>thinking perhaps soon</italic> </p> <p> <italic>she will be pregnant</italic> </p> <p> <italic>coming to me</italic>,</p> <p> <italic>but he’s wrong.</italic> </p> <p> <italic>He sees a long line</italic> </p> <p> <italic>of pregnant women</italic> </p> <p> <italic>packed like fish</italic> </p> <p> <italic>in a net bursting out</italic> </p> <p> <italic>the seams of their dresses.</italic> </p> <p>Ah! Give me a cup of tea...</p>","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Essential Clarence Major","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0045","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}