Spiced Tea

welcome yellow girl!
only make robots
she was a beautiful daughter
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keep eating
quick tears
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stand up and use the handkerchief
again

spiced black tea
its just lipton
with a dash of Iraq

Hitchcock the birds
bird in arabic
sounding like a gutteral
ch-u-rr-pa
tounge to the top of the teeth
the roof of the mouth

mama makes food with love

handkerchief and an old proud painting
no one discusses the garage
the blood
keep quiet
leave it all

again
keep eating
joy in the children
samuel like sam like same
what? no museums?
a nuclear physicist and a builder
sit on wooden stumps
on a concrete slab
oh, its the porch!
with the the mice
scurrying about their feet

now this is love.