poem11 Jul 2022 05:40 pm
Mack Mani
they always told me, You should have seen her back when she- (before she had you) the beautiful hairless nymphs of Boucher and Titan had nothing on her cut marble eyes Mariah Carey jeans endless flowing midnight hair Your mother was a looker kid, you know that? The men in her life, cursing cruising Toms & Tims good and bad and That damn boy‘s between us allthefuckingtime turned her into something they didn’t want anymore, a growling, howling mother bear set to roam the loom and gloam She told me once after they’d left, I don’t feel like a woman (or a bear) have I really lived for 50 years? I still feel like a girl on the edge of the pool, when the world was colored neonchrome when gods still walked on four legs when good and evil were afraid ashamed before I was tricked, Just this once, I said but it’s been justthisonce for 50 years. And so now she holds me close, pinned between her fur and jaws outlaws together forever cast about the wild sky.
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