This Book

There was this book

That I used to read

When I was younger

It talked about all these women

All these women

Who did amazing things

It talked about

Virginia Apgar

Sonia Sotomayor

Clara Lemlich

Helen Keller

And more

This book

Talked about women

Who weren't talked about enough

And 6 year old me

Devoured it

I read every page

Over and Over again

I thought about these women

About what they did

And I wondered

Why I had never heard of them

Before

Virginia Apgar

Made the Apgar score

Harriet Tubman

Saved lives

Claudia Lemlich

Gave both men and women

Better working conditions

I was convinced that school would talk

All about them

And highlight their accomplishments

So I waited

Thinking I would learn

About the people

From this book

I waited

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

And 8th grade

Not one of the 13 women

In this book

That I read front to back

100s of times

Was mentioned

We talked about

George Washington

And all his men

We talked about

Abraham Lincoln

The Wright brothers

Charles Dickens

Hippocrates

All these men and their accomplishments

But rarely did we talk about

The women

All the women

Who did amazing things

All the women

In this book

That I read

Each page

Over and over again