“Are you going out for your mom’s birthday?”<\/p>\n
It was a question.
\nThe question.
\nLast question.<\/p>\n
The end came long before.
\nIt was triplets screaming
\nFists POUNDING
\nFaces red
\nWhile he scrolled his
\nPhone.<\/p>\n
Forgetting a weekend class,
\nHe heard about 20 times
\nFlowed in a stream
\nWhere the ripples always
\nWashed up
\nDirty dishes
\nForgotten trash
\nUnchanged diapers.<\/p>\n
Such a stream reeks.
\nEventually,
\nEveryone will move.<\/p>\n
No one needs 6 kids alone.<\/p>\n
But no one needs a
\nPerson watching Netflix,
\nToddlers running,
\nTearing into the fridge,
\nRipping down the shower curtain.
\nNetflix
\nUnpaused.<\/p>\n
If he crawls on my body
\nAfter never touching me
\nWith a brush of the hand
\nOr slight lip glance
\nIt makes my skin tighten
\nAnd my body roll away.<\/p>\n
He won’t leave,
\nOn this day
\nWhen he mistook my mom’s birthday
\nFor a weekend class.
\nHe would do nothing either way.
\nNetflix
\nCell phone
\nNapping.<\/p>\n
Toss the coin.<\/p>\n
But I will leave.
\nHopefully.
\nAfter class.
\nAfter dinner.
\nHopefully.<\/p>\n
Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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