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Show M at eighty, my mother's life reduced to numbers most often, prices M, meaning water in Phoenician beginning and center of oranges, or of the ticket out of her life her mind a calculator with two columns a woman's body calendared by menarche and menopause a woman's soul, said Nietzsche, defined by vanity and deceit save/spend: time, money had/lost: husband, home I know a woman who wears red mink under plain wool and another who sewed her own fake breast why do I blame my mother for her unhappiness? why does she resent me for my ease? she minds love, I love minds manipulation is our real McCoy |