JUDY GRAHN
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Patriche M. Odom
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JUDY GRAHN
Photo by Steve Rhodes
In 1940, Judy Grahn was born in Chicago, Illinois into a working class family.
She was discharged from the Air Force for being openly gay.
Grahn worked a series of odd jobs in her twenties, including artist's model, short-order cook, and nurse's aide before starting the Women's Press Collective with artist Wendy Cadden in Oakland, California in 1969.
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She's a copperheaded waitress,
tired and sharp-worded,
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she hides her bad brown tooth behind a wicked smile,
and flicks her ass out of habit, to fend off the pass that passes for affection.
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She keeps her mind the way men keep a knife--keen to strip the game down to her size.
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She slaps a wet rag at the truck drivers if they should complain.
Photo by Celine Massa
She understands the necessity for pain, turns away the smaller tips, out of pride, and keeps a flask under the counter.
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Like some isolated lake, her flat blue eyes take care of their own stark bottoms. Her hands are nervous, curled, ready to scrape.
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The common woman is as common as a rattlesnake.
Photo by Mike Johnston
