04-01-2018, 11:50 PM
Water water everywhere
The look my mother's giving me
in a room full of down cast
veils and running mascara
Shows she knows I know
She already tossed every drop
And reconciled the way
My grandmother would have.
Why we're all together today.
Blood flushes my cheeks.
Maybe the mints made it
Obvious compelling her
To whisper me aside,
'I hope someone else drove you here'
Those eyes, torn, stretched to tear
me apart, to hide in my car.
I roll down my manual windows,
to keep from drowning
The look my mother's giving me
in a room full of down cast
veils and running mascara
Shows she knows I know
She already tossed every drop
And reconciled the way
My grandmother would have.
Why we're all together today.
Blood flushes my cheeks.
Maybe the mints made it
Obvious compelling her
To whisper me aside,
'I hope someone else drove you here'
Those eyes, torn, stretched to tear
me apart, to hide in my car.
I roll down my manual windows,
to keep from drowning
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches