#Bringbackourgirls—Mama’s Boy?

Every wife must apologize for not being her husband’s

mother? But he will not forgive you. The absence

of his mother's kiss is the scar of repeated

wounding. He marries you too young, before

he littered his seeds along the road. This is why

he can't get a young wife from the market. You

have used him up and witched him, made him old

in all the wrong places.

You have cursed him. Made his beer warm

too quick, made the bottle too slippy, too hard

for him to hold on. You make his head lop-

sided. Make the beer miss his lips. His shirt

gulps the beer instead. It is all you. You make him

smell like piss in his brother’s yard. You leave him

without choices. It is because of you.

His knees don’t work. He will not let you heal

his wounds. You wanted to be a doctor, so you must

have wished him crippled in all these ways. No

glory for a man who enters war wounded.