Arsenic Lobster poetry journal        Issue Six   2004
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MOTHERS SHOULD NOT BE ASTRONAUTS *
Lisa Bellamy

Mothers should not be astronauts
unless they take their children with them.
Then they can burn together.
They can fall together back to earth.

Their children will not see photographs,
then, of space shuttles streaking across the sky.
They will not say,
          “That is my mother in there.”
They will not cry out at night,
          “Take me with you.
          Don’t leave me here.
          Take me with you hold me close.”

They found a leg on the highway.
They found a helmet.
They found a skull.

* first appeared in Blind Man’s Rainbow

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