April 1st poem

Friday, April 01, 2011

"Who would ever want to be treated like a woman in a hospital?"
--Bernadette Mayer, "Fixation"


My mother and my grandmother are both still mad
about being treated like women in hospitals.
And that is how we got here! 
I tell my grandmother that my friend Annmarie
recently gave birth.  My grandmother looks at me,
says, "I wouldn't do it for anything." 

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