not a poem, but a good snap I say.
an interesting whole here, a bit of tragedy & nonchalance.
KS
On 27/01/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> telephone call with my mother
>
> she called last night
> after watching an oprah show
> about children of divorce
>
> she wanted to know what i felt
> fifty-three years ago
> when she left my father
>
> she said that she knew
> she'd never asked and never
> told me why
>
> she wanted exoneration
> and i granted it
> we all do the best we can
>
> and how much worse it would have been
> had she stayed with an angry
> drinking man
>
> she told me that when i was three
> and she sent me to stay
> with my grandparents
>
> i told them: i always know
> when daddy comes home drunk
> because he wakes me up
>
> and does any of this matter now
> into this new century
> that will close on us both?
>
>
> --
>
>
> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
>
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