"miss rosie" by Lucille Clifton:

when I watch you
wrapped up like garbarge
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels
or
when I watch you
in your old man’s shoes
with the little toe cut out
sitting, waiting for your mind
like next week’s grocery
i say
when I watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
i stand up
through your destruction
i stand up

(From The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (BOA Editions, Ltd.) © 2012, The Estate of Lucille T. Clifton)