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WWP#15 inspired by above photo..by Sarah Regnier
MOTHER OF THE AIR
every morning at dawn she sits
staring at her radio
listening to Oxydol's own Ma perkins
and the rest of the characters on the shelf
lighting up her first Chesterfield of ther day
gagging herself to death
blackmailed through her smoking and gloom
trapped between her lost independance
and frenzied delerium
puzzled by the quietness in the empty kitchen
the howling kingdom on the shelves
and the endless persecution of the roosters
listening to another episode
before writing
her last poem of the air
7 comments:
Wayne, The tone of this piece is decidedly different than most of them I've read from the prompt. The woman is intriguing. I love "the howling kingdom on the shelves."
The radio soaps were still around when I was a kid, but I was only peripherally aware of them, and never met Ma Perkins.
The rest--been somewhere near there, myself.
Wayne this is an excellent response to the prompt!
`trapped between her lost independance
and frenzied delerium`
I love these two lines,they say so much!
Pam
Great take on this prompt, Wayne! It's fascinating that this poem's mother is a chain-smoking addict of the soaps, trapped in her kitchen along with the endlessly persecuted roosters - a perfect metaphor to transform the idealized life of the curio shelf to the reality of an off-the-shelf life that was not what it was supposed to be. I love it!
Very different and rather sad, Wayne. The lines that Brenda and Pamela have highlighted appealed to me too.
Yes that line Pam pointed out sums it well. Great portrait, not at all airbrushed.
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