My Mother
My mother
Passionately singing lyrics she doesn’t understand
My mother
Singing over my voice whenever I say something she doesn’t wanna hear My mother
Whom I esteem because she picks a righteous cause and is very loud about it My mother
Obsessed with people she’s related to but dislikes
My mother
Changing octaves continuously when she sings
My mother
Thinking that red wine goes in the fridge
My mother
Following closely in my footsteps to undo what I do
My mother
Whom I follow closely in her footsteps to do what she undoes that I do My mother
Thinking that the seat belt will kill you in a car crash
My mother
Demanding the world be just as right and healed as she expects it to be My mother
Analyzing my dreams through a mix of conspiracy theory and compassion My mother
If in our previous lives I was a Jew in Nazi Germany and you were Japanese, how has that influenced our current relationship?
My mother
Did we live any past lives together or were you too busy getting married to geometry-loving aliens?
My mother
We exchanged clothes for decades
My mother
Not knowing if she’s someone, or everything, or nothing
My mother
I Ching brain, animal heart, spirit body
My mother
Flaunting one single boob to the world
My mother
Whom I find myself alike when I’m very silent next to my child instead of interacting with my child
My mother
Who gives me everything
My mother
Thank you for my mysterious childhood, I kinda liked it
My mother
Fighting with everybody
My mother
The CIA is listening to us, and she’s onto them so there are more CIA outposts around her house
My mother
I think you were joking when you said that last part
My mother
For a decade now I’ve sat in the backseat with my fingers covering my ears as you rant and rant while you drive
My mother
The government, the aliens, the CIA, Mario Draghi, the dolphins, the supermarkets My mother
Doesn’t listen to a single thing I say
My mother
Do you think NASA would tell you if the Earth was flat?
My mother
Asking me to translate my poems into Italian I’m sorry mom, I really can’t My mother
Whose mother is crazier
My mother
Where will my daughter stand in this hierarchy of feminine madness? My mother
O well, what’s life without a little vision?
My mother
Always waiting for the next summer storm to clear the air
My mother
Giving me chlorophyll supplements because we’re all like trees
My mother
She walks in another dimension
My mother
Eluding deep sleep
My mother
Can hear what her cats think
My mother
Can heal my headaches with her hands
My mother
She always knew she was special
My mother
For the sake of shocking
My mother
To save the animals
My mother
For the liberation of all sentient beings
My mother
For the salvation of my father
My mother
Painfully, but naturally
My mother
Whom I’ll always defend, even when I shouldn’t
My mother
Who doesn’t mind risking everything, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
My mother
Tearing all the shutters away from her windows in search for the Kingdom of Light My mother
Chain smoking slowly in loneliness
My mother
A door I opened into this world
My mother
If after your death your heart was weighed against a feather by a god with the face of a dog you could take the fast lane to the afterlife, surviving death with your gentle heart intact