My mom began by spending twenty thousand dollars at k-mart and target and walmart
then she cleared out every closet in the house and wiped down the bare shelves
false citrus filled our split level home from four in the morning until i fell asleep in my
hollow room
though my mom never slept and she yelled and screamed at all of us because we didn’t
help her
we hid and i tried to stop my sister from getting scared when my mom accused her of
stealing some cleaning stuff
i don’t remember when it ended but i walked into her bathroom one day
blood stained the floor and her arms and her face and i was seven
she was in the hospital for weeks and many times after that and those periods are the
rock foundations of my childhood.
