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Be our friend we ask share our sky walk with us we feel alone the city unwalk

Breakfast

 

Mother prepares breakfast before dawn the morning chorus rises she hisses goes to the garden and shouts to the birds to SHUT UP the dog barks and so does the rest of the neighbourhood mother wails we run embrace drag mother wails wails wails

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No one else matters in her world we do not exist

diner

We sit down for diner our mother prays raising her voice father stares at the clock we don't dare to move the hours come and go we fall asleep from time to time mother comes around slapping fast she prays and prays our father stares at the clock