A Day At Mother's
dear read... stop
that's almost a
palindrome start
...er my
father called
my mother
mother but i
called my mother Mum
also this is not a poem
for mother's day but
though written on
mother's day
please
read the title as intended
simply to be a memory of
being at my
Mum's
house one day when i was
thirty one years
of age but
this
is
what
was
going through my head
knowing that someday
i would write it down
i was in the
kitchen sauteing
onions in butter and
Mum was in a back room
in the back of her house when
from the stove suddenly a splatter
of butter now
turned to ghee
but still with the
fat floating on top
spat up and on to my
arm stopping all thoughts
as mentioned
above as well
as the wooden
spoon i was using
to saute the onions
in the butter now ghee
i caught myself but not
catching myself in time
also dropping the F bomb
in fact dropping the whole
nine yards when suddenly
the stampeding sound of
a single animal entered my
ears as suddenly as did my
Mum and she slapped me
in the face and said, "Don't
you ever use that kind of
language in this house ever
again!!!" and that slap
took my 31 and turned me
to 13 once again back to
when i was a boy in the
kitchen cooking and said,
"Yes Mum."
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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