When her mother died
She was not there.
I heard later that the children all
received $167 each from her life insurance.
I remember thinking, $167 for knowing your mom.
Some days there is profundity in silence, but that made me want to shout.
One hundred sixty seven dollars for knowing your mother.
What is that?
(I know it was not
repayment in kind)
I wonder what my mother will leave me.
all she wants to do is give me money.
All I want her to give me is time.
I want her mornings for yard sales.
I want her afternoons for talks and making plans for a wedding, for my future,
for the granddaughter I want her to have someday.
I want her evenings for supper somewhere kinda noisy but quiet enough to
hear our similar voices joke,
our similar tastes in food arrive,
our glasses of soda clinking happy
to the time still ticking on the wall.
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