Have you seen Naked & Healing?

Landscape of my childhood

​​The landscape of my childhood is gone Obliterated Flattened Demolished The place where I was born high on the hill is a grassy field Amongst the rich houses Once added and scabbed onto wandering like a funhouse maze Gone The place where I got my first ice cream cone...

When he is gone

When he is gone I will leave the twist tie off the bread leave the leftovers on the stove til bedtime put flowered wallpaper in the bedroom sit outside and howl at the moon When he is gone I will create my IRA squirrel money away for a rainy day pick my expenses sit...

There is more to me

There is more to me than this than waking up to do all the dishes cleaning the house paying the bills and trading the work of my hands, arms, back, and legs for just enough to just cover the bills stopping the dreams there is no money for dreams no vacations no travel...

Redundant

We sit and stare at each other I am the liberated female which gives me the right to cook dinner to clean the house to mow the yard to raise the children to paint the basement to plant the flowers to wash the dishes to work and earn a living to fix the broken things...