I want to comfort the world

I want to comfort the world,  but the world does not accept me.  It does not want the gentle warnings of a mother,  who can then comfort you...

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Dinner (After Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen)

She’s a beauty, hair perfect, each strand tucked and coiffed,
cooking dinner, she’s focused.

Dad and I wait in the living room, TV off.
She demanded complete silence while she cooked,

though it was too quiet, the cracking of eggs 
didn’t make a sound.

She moved around the small kitchen
as if gravity didn’t apply

because nothing applied to my mother.
She was beautiful and never made a mess.

When she finally came back to earth, telling us
she was done, not sweating a bit,

She didn’t even acknowledge the fact she was never alone in the matter

She never knew she was being watched and admired the entire time

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