lost
all the portents pointed to it
ditto the dreams the visions
the delirium too
the dead were travelling on buses
to have dinner with her she too was
taking fairybuses all over hell+gone
in her blue nightgown
to visit
her lost (ape i have to get a bus RIGHT NOW!)
yet it still did not dawn on anyone that
she would be making the final crossing
in a mere 6 wks
DUH (dumbkopfs)
we might have escaped to Paris where
she’d show me her haunts now haunted
by her fragilespirit dressed in silk moiré
she named me there as she pranced to Basie
but we’ve used up all of our one more onces
+ i am left to age in hipster parks
where i watch the mothers+daughters in stores too
how they look alike walk close laughing I’m sure
only I can see the frayingthreads tethering them
to this spacetime continuum
those threads are gonna SNAP ladies! and like me
you will spend the rest of eternity stroking the hand
of your invisible mother
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Summer 2023 ..please sir can i have once more?..
songanddancegirl 