Let´s stay right here and wait like plants,
or housecats.
We´ll be other people´s homes.
We´ll step off our own rollercoasters
for good.
Yes,
we´ll stay steady.
Bite the inside of your own lip — He´s right:
you´ve been spending too much money,
yes, yes…
wait.
After little one´s asleep, search for DIY toddler activites—quiet ones
that won´t disturb
His Book-Writing.
brilliant, hard-working Earner
He pays for you, afterall.
And He says He´s gonna write ´thank you´ to you on the inside of His book´s cover,
proclaim to the world what a great home you are to Him and His daughters.
No mention, of course—
and thank God—
of my spending
of my medications
of that one lucid dream of mine where the Citadel was burning.