SADIE SAYS

"You have a committee in your head telling you destructive things
and the chairperson of that committee is your mother." --a therapist

Sadie says: You're not
going out in that.
She says: I can't wait
to leave this hellhole.
She says: You children
will never learn...Goddamn you,
goddamn you, goddamn you!
And she says: I wish I'd
never been born.
She says: what do you
have to be sad about?
And: I love you like
angry death, my sons and
daughter, my
only hope.