heaven’s babe-alas
was it a good place to grow up? some of it was good
some of it was tragic it made me who i am +who i
am not
yesterday i sat in the kitchen 9yrs. old +watched the
original glam manor babes at cards mum smoking
Players Mary Quant blue eyeliner auburn haired
a sleekbabe 42 4 kids husband knight errant these were
difficult 1950’s marriages said Mrs. Swartz the newest
resident in heaven RIP
husbands husky smoking unfiltered cigs some mary jane
for pops they were gruff rough+tuff working class men
arteries hard souls in foxholes
a few started to make some coin slugging watermelons
repo’d appliances now race horses wives in diamonds
convertibles Courrèges leather jackets
the divas casting pearls before swine 11 kids between them
2 cancer-wasted early on mother survived her bout +nearly
lived forever
there sat the OG’s laughing gossip +kibbitz i thought they were
queens queens of the stone-age now under daisies or in mother’s
case scorched grass (don’t ask)
but there at the ghostly table they are gorgeous wicked lustybitches
exactly what i wanted to be i felt a cool kiss blown at my cheek mum?
mum? i saw the glory the rough husbands the broken dreams
the babes wave away my pity you’re too young to understand we
love/hate our husbands wash their boxers adore their children +
accept our fate the root word of passion is suffering
you who meditate 3x a day + need an american millionaire to teach
you how to be free! where else you gonna be? but HERE NOW
you darling dummkopf daughter
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..i feel sorry for you.. you have too much education..
it makes you crazy.. (mother at 98)
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Winter 2023 ..Be Here Now! ..Ram Dass.. American Spiritual Guru.. you’re fired!
(..and the root word of angina is..anger..)
songanddancegirl 