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Amendment

my mother’s window

Posted on May 24, 2020July 12, 2022 by Amendment Posted in 2018, LiteratureTagged 2018, Literature, Won't Shut Up

why
is it that whenever
she speaks it seems
she is
on the verge
of tears, as if
a million histories
are leaking out
from the seams laid down
by conquistadors
and Reaganites,
stitching her,
sedating her.

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