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It's almost Mother's Day |
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Me and the other widows will commiserate |
| [00:12.88] |
Alone at Montessori again |
| [00:20.58] |
Straddling two worlds |
| [00:24.39] |
Between the crush of single parenting |
| [00:30.85] |
And the need for wailing in the woods |
| [00:34.13] |
Around a slash pile burning |
| [00:37.40] |
Into the night with tear crusted eyes |
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| [00:47.18] |
I know I'm overcompensating |
| [00:53.02] |
In this PTSD disorientation |
| [00:58.86] |
From my brief time in the rich part of the city |
| [01:04.28] |
Now my hands stink like salmon skin |
| [01:07.85] |
Left out in the rain in the ash |
| [01:10.14] |
Of the fire from last night |
| [01:12.56] |
I haven't bathed in a while |
| [01:15.16] |
And no one's near me |
| [01:16.54] |
|
| [01:16.76] |
If there's significance in where you live |
| [01:21.58] |
Let it all go and follow love and intuition |
| [01:26.04] |
Today the tabloids told the world you separated me |
| [01:30.35] |
And see what's there |
| [01:32.13] |
My phone began dinging more than usual |
| [01:35.59] |
In the open sky |
| [01:37.14] |
It was just like the day they found out that we'd gotten married |
| [01:41.11] |
Because we're all gonna die |
| [01:43.46] |
Unwanted attention |
| [01:46.29] |
From an inhumane delirious absurd other world that keeps trying to eat you |
| [01:53.55] |
|
| [01:56.76] |
I woke up quivering, raw, and heartbroken again |
| [02:04.41] |
Took my daughter to the garbage dump |
| [02:07.80] |
And rifled through the free pile |
| [02:10.48] |
And stood next to the pit |
| [02:14.19] |
The crows and ravens circling spoke to us |
| [02:19.66] |
And we spoke back to them |
| [02:26.74] |
But nothing is real |
| [02:29.30] |
Except this one thing |
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|
| [02:36.64] |
Please remember at the bookstore in the poetry corner upstairs |
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I slept with my head on your lap |
