time will love
will time heal
all women who fall
in love;  girls born w/
their mother's eyes &
already in tears; their
**** cut open & sewn back
together so they can work as
showgirls for five desperate
years; forgetting their years
******* in the gutter & hissing
at would be hustlers in passing
cars; hustling to put ur *******
through school ungrateful *****
look what u've done to her;
blacked out on pills & *****;
ur a mother now, put down
the ******* *******, Joyce
you won't see our mother's eyes
anymore except in Polaroids
of beach vacations when u were
drunk then too; **** u Joyce,
u've destroyed this whole family
tomorrow I'd give anything to see
tomorrow in mother's eyes again
against her ghost's eyes mother's
first man ran out on her; Joyce
too soon to be a woman &
the girls left alone
w/o a kosher mother;
neighbors babysitting
the cradle & carriage
left in the hall