Saturday 29 November 2008

And her son cried...

“I want doesn’t get.”
The purse-lipped voice of her mother,
remembered.
Ritalin pills fall
like Smarties
onto snow white ice-cream
and she wishes her mum
was still alive.

2 comments:

aims said...

This!! This says so much in so few lines!

Did she kill her mother? Or is her mother just dead from natural causes?

Does she need the ritalin - and for what?

And how I wish my Mum was still alive. Every day I wish that!

Rachel Green said...

Her mother died of natural causes. The ritalin is for the crying son who wantswantswants - her telling him 'I want doesn't get' has brought her mother, who used to say the same to her, to mind.