They skipped "Tender Buttons" in poetry class.

"Tender Buttons [Objects] by Gertrude Stein" - Poems | Academy of American Poets

https://poets.org/poem/tender-buttons-objects

"Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume."

Hmmmm. Interesting.