Mourning thoughts
There was once a burrow There fit my sorrow In that sorrow people wandered Indifferent to my might There goes my father who told me to first buy a car and then a house. Or was it the other way around? I can’t tell and I tell it wrong But he still takes me to the still to be buried, to pick on words of people who don’t know what to say He doesn't really know what to say So he passes me a shovel and we make burrows “This space is so big” he whimpers Or I do. I can’t tell. I didn’t build a home We store it all in burrows and drink tea with butter with sugar on top at some slight of passage that shakes less than others Would you be so kind? There’s no more milk, so I run out to get some and fall (Dad has made a habit out of making burrows when no one watches, and I fall) People here know their way They don’t need burrows nor have sorrows, nor homes nor cars. They don’t even walk. My dad pretends to so I can walk alongside him above the dead that jump scare me into their stories Why? ...