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floweranzaThey sit in separate rooms and eat separate dinners and watch separate television. I do not speak of the rich family or the poor, but the one in the middle with the cozy house and the single television and the worn-down dining room table. That family doesn't exist, because everything is separate now, all on different spokes of the same wheel.
Father's Wife sits in the kitchen, and watches. The man on the screen says, "But I do not want to die," and the rigid woman answers him, "No one wants to die." That is the sort of thing Father's Wife watches with eyes glued to the screen. The pad of the kitchen counter chair is threadbare.
Father stretches out on the plush couch and watches apocalypses. Futility and desperation and fantasy and things that could never happen, just as much as Father never lived his dream. The man on the screen says, "No, no, one second more!" and I am sure that is what Father said when the test came to an end.
Brother curls his small body on the plush chair in his room and watches cartoons. He is still young, but already heading off an a different path; that is inevitable. Brother watches everything, but he pays the most mind to the things with story, and I believe that Brother might come out the best of us all. He will illustrate the stories in his heart.
Brother's Sister sits here.
Father's Wife sits in the kitchen, and watches. The man on the screen says, "But I do not want to die," and the rigid woman answers him, "No one wants to die." That is the sort of thing Father's Wife watches with eyes glued to the screen. The pad of the kitchen counter chair is threadbare.
Father stretches out on the plush couch and watches apocalypses. Futility and desperation and fantasy and things that could never happen, just as much as Father never lived his dream. The man on the screen says, "No, no, one second more!" and I am sure that is what Father said when the test came to an end.
Brother curls his small body on the plush chair in his room and watches cartoons. He is still young, but already heading off an a different path; that is inevitable. Brother watches everything, but he pays the most mind to the things with story, and I believe that Brother might come out the best of us all. He will illustrate the stories in his heart.
Brother's Sister sits here.