[New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

[Anny Ballardini]

Jaysoos, Hal.
I would change the title. Malcontenta has a naughty hue, something close to
stubborn and proud, never satisfied, disobedient.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sonnet: La Malcontenta
>
> Nowadays, she is away a lot, away from home, from her kids,
>  who've learned to deal, to take care of themselves and each
> other. She loads her little truck with her wares and drives off,
> waving into the rear-view mirror. She tweets them from little
>
> towns in the countryside where she (on good days) sells her
> wares, comes back empty. Her oldest son in Afghanistan, she
> tweets him too. He always says, "im ok mom," but she wonders,
> and wonders how he could be. She voted for Obama too,
>
> but now she wonders. On the road a lot and sometimes over
> night if the truck isn't empty, she'd like to be home with her kids
> but business is business, and if she doesn't sell, the kids don't
> eat. There are men . . . well, yes, there have to be men, right?
>
> The kid in Afghanistan, he tweets her with "hey mom im dyng."
> It's the last one. She tweets him a hug and a kiss.
>
>
>
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>
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