Mama
left him alone
for six weeks in Stockholm
under watch from a (six-stringed) pal,
and came back Monday with the brightest smile
and her twelfth score, this month: a chef.
Years later, in swollen
pain, he thinks back
'…Mama.'

Mama
left him alone
for six weeks in Stockholm
under watch from a (six-stringed) pal,
and came back Monday with the brightest smile
and her twelfth score, this month: a chef.
Years later, in swollen
pain, he thinks back
'…Mama.'
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