2001/dastardly

A dastardly deed
the newspaper said,
about the man
who shot my aunt
when she was sixteen.
Hard to believe
they ever really said that.
It happened before my
mother was born.
My grandmother
gave birth
two more
times,
to make up
for the loss,
first my aunt
and then my mother
and her twin who
died at birth.
My cousin who lived
with them says,
“they doted on those
girls,”
a source of bitterness
it seems,
but easy to
understand.

1/30/01

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