Before dying one last time
It took decades for it to hit me, like a slow-moving cancer.
You married my father by misunderstanding. You were beautiful and desirable; he was already old, but rich. He had a whole life behind him and two children from his first marriage.
Reasonably, he didn't want any more children.
The misunderstanding is me.
The surprise package.
An old man's child. I could easily have been his grandson, Desired and imposed upon by one, rejected and endured by the other.
You stole my childhood. A first little death.
You betrayed my father and did not spare me
your cries of pleasure
in the arms of your lovers.
A second little death.
Before dying one last time
times, I present you the bill,
Mom.
In digital version
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