My family members are some of the most resourceful humans I know/ always trying to make
something of their waste/ example: i’ve never asked my mother how she and my father met/ so I
want to imagine something I hope to be true/ my mother meets my father/ gives him a chance/
and he makes two things: divorce and a boy

But before them

My grandmother and grandfather show all their teeth when they dance/ I think about any Janet
Jackson record from the early 2000’s/ how one song can flood/ doesn’t really matter what they
believe/ what matters to me is you’re in love with me / what a strange thing to say in a
courtroom/  instead/ my grandparents made two things: divorce and a daughter

And before them - so many years ago

 

On some far-off shore/ strange men break up a wedding with loveless weapons/ an entire
people breaks up with itself/ and the strange men ask an ocean to un marry us all

 

In this bloodline of divorce, you can see the parallels
science says i am what my mother was/ what my father was/ so i'll leave too

 

I divorce myself from my body / dissociation? no/ I just choose something prettier/ I make two
things: my fears come true and a poem

 

But before that/I sit down to write in a household of women/ who know men that leave too soon/
I leave no notes behind.