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Mother's day duty:
Show up all pleasant & fruity
For an afternoon of forced smiles & laughs
Drove miles to see grandparents, uncles & aunts.
Teasing & taunts
All 'good natured fun'
And cousinly jaunts -
Another beer run
But it's okay, I'm fine
I've had a bottle of wine
A family get-together
Relatives & awkward pressure
'Where's the boyfriend? '
'Why haven't you found a man? '
Questions they ask
I really can't stand
But after a bottle of wine
I'm feeling rather fine
So I answer them:
'I found him...
But he isn't really real.'
And they say 'Oh.'
And don't know how to feel.
There's some stammers
What manners go with
such an absurd response?
A cease-fire of questions
This silence could be my only chance
To escape the barrage of inquisitions
I stare off in a hypnotic trance
...
Dear Aunty cracks a joke
and the silence is shattered
with thankful laughter
That someone broke
The muteness I was after
I want to pass out on the couch
but that's impolite
So I'll stand sit or crouch
And pretend I'm alright.
After a bottle of wine
I'm feeling rather fine.
Delwen Doyle
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