Wednesday, June 11, 2014

men and women on abuse

when I told my mother she cried for me
had to shield her eyes and hold
her heart

when I told my brother and father they
said
oh
thats too bad
as if I'd found a fly in my soup

their hands almost making a lazy gesture as if to
snap at the waiter
and ask for a different bowl of minestrone
on my behalf

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