The Cousin We Feared
She was the cousin we feared
There were no consequences
She stayed with the grown ups
No one sent her away
All the other aunts and my own mother
Did not send her away
She was our spy,
Gloating in the knowledge
That her own
Overly-aggressive mother
Dared not try,
For she was afraid
Of her thirteen-year-old
Daughter
Luckily, the rest of us
Grandchildren
Had a much better
time without either of them
It was not until after we were grown
We learned the truth
Shocked that Aunt Z,
The bossiest of the bosses
The oldest in a family of twelve children
The one who was the expert in everything else
Dared not send her
bossy, mean-as-a-snake
child out of the grown-up
area, for she did not want
her siblings to know
who was the boss of her
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