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The Humane Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mother brought home
\nthe strangest creatures:
\na lamb wearing a big white diaper;
\na blind raccoon; a wolfhound
\nwith a broken hip, spooked
\nby birthday balloons\u2014
\n 
\nThen there was Mary Lou:
\ntwo hundred sixty pounds and bruised,
\nshe held a big leather purse,
\ndrank diet pop, smacked pink gum,
\nwent to the movies alone;
\nMother called her a Godsend<\/em>.
\n 
\nNext, it was Lucy, a little girl
\nmy mother gave violin lessons to
\nand called daughter<\/em>. She took
\nover my old bedroom, then moved
\nto sleeping next to my mother, close
\nto her under the covers at night,
\nholding her hand in the big brass bed.
\n 
\nSoon mother kicked all of us out\u2014
\ngave the seven sick cats
\nto my sister, found my father
\na gritty flat, and took his van keys.
\nThat’s when she brought home
\nthe man that beat her,
\nthe Chinese man that broke her nose,
\nand pushed her all the way down
\nthe shiny maple stairs.<\/p>\n

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Romancing Herself<\/b><\/p>\n

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One husband was violent, the other one
\nwas kind, but none of that really mattered now
\nthat both miserable men were finally gone;
\nat last my poor mother could be free\u2014
\nso she ran herself a warm bubble bath
\nand poured herself a glass of chardonnay;
\nit was time to do the things she\u2019d meant to do
\nshe thought, sinking into the warm water
\nand rubbing her tired feet with a pumice stone:
\nlearn her part to the Bach Double Concerto<\/i>;
\nfinish transcribing that Paganini piece;
\nand of course, make that new CD.
\nI don\u2019t need a man to accompany me, she said,
\nlater sitting tall at father\u2019s piano,
\nand poking her nose into his old music notes.
\nShe started father\u2019s old tape recorder,
\nand moved her fingers suggestively across the keys.
\nThen she moved over to the \u2018cello:
\nlifted the long bow and began to coax
\na kind of music from the hollow instrument.<\/p>\n

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