RE-MOTHER
RE-MOTHER ME
She was 19 and undiagnosable
She would flail and shout and thrash about
And I was desperate to do something to help her
One day as we sat in her pee (unbeknownst to me)
a calm came over her one that all of my flapping
up in the windowsill could not produce (desperate therapist works it)
And there we sat for 45 minutes while she rocked
contentedly Like a baby in a wet diaper whose mother is near
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*many neglected infants are hospitalized for bleeding diaper rash
and cannot be comforted during treatment
Spring 2013
