my yt mama by Mercedes Eng

Author:Mercedes Eng
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781772012972
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

that life isn’t fair

in Eden Robinson’s novel Son of a Trickster the protagonist Jared’s

mom says “life is hard, you have to be harder” which made me think of my

mom and her “life isn’t fair.” both mine and Jared’s moms are often

unable to be present parents, and Eden says Jared’s mom is coming

from a place of trauma. my mom’s coming from a place of trauma too

the places we come from/1

a branch of kisiskāciwani-sīpiy (the Saskatchewan River) flows through Treaty 7 Territory, the last of the Numbered Treaties to be negotiated, signed in 1877. Treaty 7 includes the cities of Medicine Hat, Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer, and several small towns and villages

kisiskāciwani-sīpiy flows through the centre of Medicine Hat, which was established as a townsite once the CPR built a bridge across the river

part of the Cypress Hills is in Treaty 7 Territory and traverses the border between the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan into Treaty 4 Territory

traverses borders like me

traverses borders like my yt mama did

when she loved my not-yt dad

and didn’t give a fuck

what anyone in our shitty prairie town thought

about their love

that produced me

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