mother do you think…

by pelerine

Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-05-16 11:52:00

Parent message is 451445


i’d rather not think of
my mother at this point
so maybe i’ll think of somebody else’s mother

maybe my mother’s mother,
she never did anything

well, she was mean
i guess that counts for something
she had a bunch of kids she never wanted
maybe that counts as a minus
she scoffed at education
and other races so i guess
i’m being unfair to say she never did anything

to the faces of people she wanted to manipulate,
i’m sure she was the sweetest person they
ever met.

it makes me sick when i spot others just like her
mathematical genius, calculating,
stockings rolled down around her skinny ankles
babushka tied in the rain
pursed lips and snarling eyes
waiting for just the right time to crush or appease.


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