Let us praise the founding mothers

Let us praise the founding mothers
and their mothers before them

who watched the seasons, milled the grain,
who spun their yarn and baked their pies,
who raised their sons and milked the cow,
who tittle-tattled in the store,
who sat with neighbours on the porch,
who saved up scraps to stitch in quilts,
who took no hostages in life
for which they knew the Lord provides,
whose great-great-grandsons have been told
by sons of founding fathers to take Baghdad
to defend the founding mothers' way of life.