bone by Daley-Ward Yrsa

Author:Daley-Ward, Yrsa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

true story

It’s not that dad doesn’t love you

or your brother

said mum,

greasing up our ashy legs with Vaseline

Or that your auntie Amy’s a man

stealing cheating, back-stabbing bitch

who can’t keep a man so she has to steal

somebody else’s.

We just don’t see eye to eye any more,

that’s all

and he wouldn’t stop eating cashew

nuts in bed.

It’s not that your mum and I

hate each other

said dad, pushing a crumpled ten

pound note into my chinos pocket

or that I forgot about your birthday

but I need time to think. I’m moving

in with Amy

and anyway, your mum cooks with

too much salt.

It wasn’t so much an affair, you

understand

said Auntie Amy, lacing up my

brothers small Nike trainers

and picking out my knots with the

wooden comb shaped like a fist

but a meeting of minds,

outside of our respective vows.

(And bodies, muttered mum when

I told her later.

Two faced tramp. What a joke.

Don’t tell anyone I said that.

Don’t tell anyone I said that.)

It’s not as though

your mum’s exactly an angel, either

said dad with blood red eyes

and a pulsing vein in his forehead

finishing the last of the whisky

and auntie Amy said, easy Winston,

you’ve had a lot

and dad said, Don’t tell me what to

do

not even my wife yet, and you think

you know it all.

Yeah, you think you know it all?

It’s not that your family are going to

hell, necessarily

said grandma, boiling up the green

banana, yam and dumpling

and grating the coconut onto the rice

and peas

They must just accept Jesus Christ

into their lives

and put away the drink and sin and all

the lies.

Now go and wash your hands and set

the table.

Don’t worry, girl.

We’ll pray for them tonight.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.