Mother Mirror
Emancipated eyebrows, momma
Independent lips
Electric fingertips
Skin like down
Breasts like icons
Where are the resistance fighters
Marching without hips
Dancing with dips
Sprinting without sips
Street cracks
Lab rats
Sun black
Blue bats
Abducted librettos
Red like wine
Tanning on the Jersey shore
Long like time
Shopping at the super store
With one thin dime
Just like you
My hair licorice and new
Soul fragile
Made of bamboo
Heart agile too
Losing it all
This late in life
Pushing the invisible knife
Testing boundaries
With no one in sight
Ovarian Cancer the official diagnosis
Loneliness the dark van
Frustration the also ran
Mother, your light burrowed a hole into my sight
No cataclysmic blight
Like you
I am part Jewish
Witness of a witness of Nazis
Who shuttered your dramatic conservatory
Massacred your countrymen, women and children
Occupied your beloved Czechoslovakia
Of the confusion and suffering wars bring
Leaving us with absolutely nothing
But hell in heaven's sling
Plastic bling
Street Cracks
In concrete and cement
Streets and avenues pour from the vent
Vomit the smoothness like an open tent
In asphalt or tar
Medicine or car
Comet or star
Megadoppler scar
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Stars circle same
Like the Grand ole Opry's member game
Street cracks beneath soiled racks
Tennis shoes and bare feet
Skipping on parted lacks
Bicycles and cars
Motorcycles and pars
Much too far
Wheels in the stars
Rusted land
Alabaster sand
Without licorice hand
No mirth
Ship to Perth
Merely you and I
On a trip to birth
Leaving envy behind
On this strange, insane earth
Say Yes
To everything
Therefore nothing
Over street cracks and bridges
Through walls and halls
Like slithering rattlers
Breaking stalls
Say yes to it all
Do not stall
In the neighborhood mall
Bending to fall
Affirmative action
Instinctual reaction
Superficial subtraction
Internal refraction
Positive concoction
Serious explosion
Manipulated mansion
Pickpocketed palace
Say yes to life
Say yes to reality
Say yes to your dreams
Say yes to your aspirations
Say yes to now
Say yes to wow
Say yes to how
Never say yes to Mao
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