The Promise By Mandi CALLING THE CHILDREN IN FROM PLAYING SETTING THEM DOWN TO DINNER AND THEN PUTTING THEM INTO A WARM BATH BEFORE TUCKING THEM INTO BED AND SLIPPING DOWNSTAIRS WHISPERING AND GIGGLING THEN VOICES GROWING LOUDER IN ANGER AS THE PROMISES OF YESTERDAY ARE FORGOTTEN AND THE TROUBLES OF TODAY TAKE OVER AND [...]

You said “I guess… I’ll marry you…. if it’s mine” When I was born She had to walk to the pay phone Because you had to drink at the bar. You called me “he” for the first three months Even when they dressed me in pink She left you, wisely, when you made the home [...]

CALLING THE CHILDREN IN FROM PLAYING SETTING THEM DOWN TO DINNER AND THEN PUTTING THEM INTO A WARM BATH BEFORE TUCKING THEM INTO BED AND SLIPPING DOWNSTAIRS WHISPERING AND GIGGLING THEN VOICES GROWING LOUDER IN ANGER AS THE PROMISES OF YESTERDAY ARE FORGOTTEN AND THE TROUBLES OF TODAY TAKE OVER AND RISE TO THE FOREFRONT [...]