Odes to Lithium by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-11-02T14:46:20+00:00

SOMEONE ELSE’S MOTHER

Helena Joy drank pickle juice from the jar, stole

my green nail polish, egged on her humping rabbits, killed

the basement light so I couldn’t find my hands, cracked

too many eggs into the batter, enjoyed the hatch & fester

of a lie in her mouth, named every doll after herself, tore

fake bills out of my fists & claimed the game, carefully laid

three drawings on the rug: legs, torso, face of some man

& ground her hips against him. In her dusty Victorian

with nibbled chalk in the driveway & a circular pool in the back,

she chewed her long braid & poured syrup. When maggots galloped

from the bottle’s lip onto our pancakes, her body chose

a laugh. But unlike her, I couldn’t leave them, or, they wouldn’t

leave me. Later, I climbed the ladder & edged the lip of the

pool, plastic blue tarp sealing it for autumn, & fell in, writhing

in my sudden coffin. My useless hands grasped no rail until

it was her mother, three hundred pounds lifting me,

having heard the splash from the living room & run fast,

fastest to me, my own mother behind her.

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