Mother In Disguise

Mother in disguise Two days old she was attending her mother`s funeral pictures were taken when she sees them she will be proud and sad she will be proud and sad I did not attend my mother`s she died day before Christmas hurriedly buried the diggers wanted the day off when I got the on a plane it was too late I didn`t leave A small woman Her bones must be tiny Her skull big and empty it has nothing to tell So long ago The woman I remember has been reinvented so many times she was pygmy gave me to a Swedish missionary who soaked me in bleach for a week I`m so white need no flashlight I cannot remember the real one But she is in here somewhere.