A NOTE TO MY MOTHER
Paul Weinman
Passing out tangerines to the homeless
does not make up for those fingers
you've been leaving in deskdrawers
coatroom pockets and at ATMs.
It's almost schizoid behavior, you know.
Yes, and now you snicker ...
rip up print-outs of corporate fax #s
circulate bogus E-mail addresses.
Does this replace those years
those aggravating periods of scripturing?
Your pasting of proverbs on infants foreheads?
Or those dayglow quotes from John, Mark, etc.
you'd glue to hubcaps, prophelactic boxes?
Whose fingers are they?
For heaven's sake!
What group of peopel is now going
fumbling about unable to hold things
can't even stroke each other lovingly
anymore.
