A Tattoo for Mom by Liz Martelli

This is not what my mother

had dreamed for me

9 to 5 in retail

still living at home

my fiance in jail

but i’m happy

and i think i’m

okay

in fact i know i am

i am my mother’s

worry

as big dutch once drew

a tattoo for mom

“mother’s worry;”

what i am.

posted may 10, 2007 on her myspace page