Dorian Hayes

untitled

(after Montana, after Nebraska)
 
“Please stay alive.”
            Consideration: I have never met you
            bound together in blood, I reflect
            you, me, not quite, but kind of–
            ‘representative’ is a good word for it.
 
Watch a man cry in court, feel loved
            “Heads up, chins up, we’re survivors”
            better now than before but I am, have been
            man-mother, keep talking, please
           
stop this all; please don’t stop.