TEEN MOTHER
I blithered
some righteous idiocy
about getting to school
on time.
Saying further
that I would call her mother
if she was late again.
She skewered me
to my chair
pinned me there
with her eyes.
She said -
I walk to school
with my kid
on my hip.
My mother
don't give a shit
if I get here at all.
I am the one who cares
about school
...and my mother's boyfriend
will give me a ride
for two dollars for gas
...and a fuck.
She said -
I walk and sometimes I'm late.
Crone, Grandmother, poet and crabby old woman.
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