Raymond Antrobus - Non-Music, Poetry (Literature)

Maybe my most important identity is being a son

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my mother asking how to open a tab on her laptop, to email a photo, calling to ask— can you change the lightbulb at the top of the stairs? my mother spending hours helping me find a doctor's form, a hearing aid battery, anything misplaced, my mother who keeps leaving her keys in the doors or on the walls, who keeps saying I might have to change the locks, mother of self-sufficiency, of beads and trolleys, of handlebars, short-tempered spiteful mother, mother of resistance, licorice and seaweed on the table, lonely mother, mother needs-no-man, mother deserves my cooking, deserves a long sleep, a cuppa tea, a garden of lavender mothers, all her heads up, mother's tooth falls out, mother dyes her hair, don't say graying say sea salt and cream, remedy, immortal mother.

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Writers: Raymond Antrobus

Maybe my most important identity is being a son

Maybe my most important identity is being a son

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