#15- Family.

Holiday preparations.

Easter approaches.

Making preparations with the family.

Helping nieces color eggs.

Mother makes last minute adjustments

To tomorrow's menu

For varied dietary needs.

Anxious.  Demanding.  Impatient.  

Asking everyone for this and that.

In broken English.

And a touch of dementia.

Hard to follow.

She asks one sister to suddenly push up

The timeframe for

The favor she asked her to do

To tomorrow.

Sister gets frustrated.  

Makes snide side comment about me

And my work situation.

I get quiet.  

Shock.

Cut much deeper than expected.

Not sure what to say or do.

Other sister trying to fix mother's mistakes

On a computer that sometimes works

While my mother continues to badger us.  

And Dad and brother in law watch the Playoffs on TV,

And one niece is screaming upstairs.

While the other plays with the couch cushions.

Sisters and mother start to argue, even more.

I sit and watch.

Someone says something to me.

I answer sheepishly.

First sister, annoyed, 

Oddly hostile, stares.

Says:

"Why are you taking everything 

So personally?"

I ask to be excused 

And walk away  

Like a f*****g teenager

All over again.  

I hope things 

Are going better

This weekend

For you and 

Your family, Miss.

Author's Note

Stopping to write my daily poem after something upsetting happened, again. I guess this is what I do now.