Maud went to college. <br />Sadie stayed home. <br />Sadie scraped life <br />With a fine toothed comb. <br /> <br />She didn't leave a tangle in <br />Her comb found every strand. <br />Sadie was one of the livingest chicks <br />In all the land. <br /> <br />Sadie bore two babies <br />Under her maiden name. <br />Maud and Ma and Papa <br />Nearly died of shame. <br /> <br />When Sadie said her last so-long <br />Her girls struck out from home. <br />(Sadie left as heritage <br />Her fine-toothed comb.) <br /> <br />Maud, who went to college, <br />Is a thin brown mouse. <br />She is living all alone <br />In this old house.<br /><br />Gwendolyn Brooks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sadie-and-maud/
