Vogel, Constance

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The Prairie Light ReviewVolume 18Number 1 Insights Article 19Fall 12-1-1997It Used To Be So EasyConstance VogelCollege of DuPageFollow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/plrThis Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion inThe Prairie Light Review by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact koteles@cod.edu.Recommended CitationVogel, Constance (1997) "It Used To Be So Easy," The Prairie Light Review: Vol. 18 : No. 1 , Article 19.Available at: http://dc.cod.edu/plr/vol18/iss1/19It Used To Be So EasyWhen you were in the high chairyou never questioned those who saidgreen beans and applesaucewould make you grow.On your Girl Scout cookie routeyou skipped the housewhere they said danger lurked.But came the daywhen you were forced to enterno man’s land alone.Your stomach gnawed,your heart burnedat high school graduationand you crossed the stageto the future.The night before your weddingyou looked across the dinner tableat almost-relativeswaiting for their meal.Soon you would be their main course.Life’s become a cafeteriawith a line that moves so fastno selection can be put back.— Constance Vogel1Vogel: It Used To Be So EasyPublished by DigitalCommons@COD, 1997

It Used To Be So Easy

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