Unlike Odysseus, they know where they are going
and what a straight line is. The day wears on.
Evening, the palace empties. The Mothers feel
quite at home, but the night cleaners cannot come in.
morning comes and the Mothers
are barricaded behind the front door. The government officials,
their assistants and their sub-assistants must enter
through the back door. Everyone is embarrassed.
After lunch, an emissary of the President
comes out to ask the Mothers if they will speak with him.
The Mothers understand the political process.
They will take a vote and then they
will
announce their decision.
ELIZABETH REES
Multiple Personality
Once the fire caught and spit,
it licked the beams of my home,
how could I have known?
All my life I knew I was meant for
something bad,
all
my life
I waited for this child.
The nine years I had him
were the only nine I lived.
I begged the firemen to find him,
but he drowned in the fire . He died
in twenty minutes, tell me
twenty minutes is too short.
