Thursday, 22 February 2024

past caring

 past caring


one exorcises guilt

and it grows stronger


my mum said:


‘you are like a string of diseased meat’


that beat the power of words into me


she was hurting somewhere 

and it never surfaced

she boiled it away with my white shirts

starched her upper lip proper like 


bloody ghosts!

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