she
is not spoken of
why not
no concern of yours, Child

smoke curling from the next in a four pack a day habit
ever present drink clutched casually spinning sympathy
in small talk detailing spitefully her Latest's trespass
sneering quietly i own that train

she would bring her lovers sometimes
seldom they were kind

Bobby first boy beatings
ever he had her heart

Bobbi's father
who never looked back

Joyce.
Another kind of first

between
many others and the husbands

for her start
that one
terrorized her soul
taught her fellatio
we called grandfather

you insist,
why

a grandmother's hatred
a daughter now mother torn
a grandfather's lust
mothers and daughters asunder

is none of my concern