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Women Do, Mama

By Sweeetsuz

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I tried to do the things you said be different Then I was a lonely child living in my own head imaginations a good companion it seemed I could not do the best things When the daughter came you cannot take her away cannot go to school get into the poverty slide Kept baby for weeks consecutively But not to town, stay home Never could quite do the most things You said only come if there will be no tomorrows to be here I barely arrived in time pain intensely swallowing humanity death lurking held off waiting I might say good-by, touch you once on time, but not quite enough time Taking up things from the past accomplishing things others do but younger in time than I aware now that you feared I might grow away as I did trying to keep me closer being friends too, you wanted nearness my not being “quite” was in me, not you But Mama, women do~~ Written August 4th, 2001 © on Aug 03 2001 05:14 PM PST   0 • 8

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