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Medicine Alice Walker Grandma sleeps with my sick grandpa so she can get him during the night medicine to stop the pain In the morning clumsily I wake them Her eyes look at me from underneath his withered arm The medicine is all in her long unbraided hair. (1968) From Alice Walker, Once (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968), p. 70. Copyright © 1968 by Alice Walker. Reprinted with permission of Harcourt Brace and Company. Literature and Medicine 13, no. 2 (Fall 1994) 209 ...

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