Monday, October 15, 2018

around and around

my mother
suffered with men.
though no picnic herself.
her Italian
blood
full of passion.
the plates would fly.
forks and knives.
glass littered
the room.
blood was spilled, but
in the end
they'd make love,
my father and her,
have another child,
then start all over
again.

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