Question:
Do you want June to go?
I said goodbye to aunt June,
I wore my good coat
I smiled my best smile
as you stood pouting in the shade,
lost as a wallet
full of rent money
and the landlord is an a$$hole
My mother's sister has skin like paper
her life written large
all full of italics
and bold face types fading with time
from a face
pink as candy floss
and eyes watery with age
you glare and cough and shuffle
as I make a promise
and take down a name
and look sideways to witness you
talking on the phone
walking to the car
taking the keys and leaving me
on the platform waiting for June to go.
Additional Details6 days ago
I don't really have an aunt June the woman in the piece is my mother-in-law whom I love dearly
6 days ago
cinnamon, I don't really know who 'you' is. Possibly my wife, possibly my youth, possibly my kids... In my minds eye 'you' is the sum of all the impatient people in the world who rush forward and miss the things that matter. In my weaker moments I wish I could go with them.
6 days ago
miss moncrieff (?),
the last line stands, the 'you' in the poem would say that exact thing if their landlord got on them because they didn't pay the rent. They would always look outside themselves for someone to blame for their misfortune. They are lost because they can't see their own flaws.
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6 days agoI don't really have an aunt June the woman in the piece is my mother-in-law whom I love dearly