IISZ 2018 Challenge #3 - Utterly Mistaken

[Lizzie]

I put down my cup, and diagnose
with the sheer certainty of the childless,
what they should be doing.

In two years, my son will be born.

I heard that. Your kids "will never behave that way" until they do. And there's always one kid that burns the house down.

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remembering how sophisticated
and intelligent I sounded when I told him
a buried egg
left in the dirt for a century

is a delicatessen in China.

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A Toddler's Testimony 

I lived in the baby's room
too long. The bright, yellow-felted 
moon
        and stars
                     of the mobile 
                                       hanging over my head
got within reach
and I tore out the stuffing.

Layers of potential meaning in this one. A coming of age story.
I find the use of formatting appropriate and not gimmicky. Well done.

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Mistaken Fear

What's compelling about this one for me is the speaker's ambivalence toward the forgetting of sins. It's not the same as forgiveness.