The Baby
Pale mother is back. She looks tired.
"Where's the baby?"
A shadow walks across her eyes.
"I'll make some Corn Flakes."
"The milks gone off mum,
where's baby?"
She sits down in an easy chair,
picks up a woman's magazine.
"Gone off", she says.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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