MOTHER’S EDGE by Claire Scott So not PC to want to toss your child out the window smother her with pillows
drown her in the bathtub
but she screams & screams
despite your best rendition of Hush Little Baby despite hours of rocking pacing cruising the block at 3 am nerves standing up hair on fire
nightgown covered in spit & snot
heaps of dirty diapers on the floor, the couch, the chairs the place is starting to stink
please god just a few minutes without her cries then I promise I will be good as I eye a pillow
an open window please
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