[New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

[Halvard Johnson]

Thanks for the suggestion, Anny. I know what the word means.

Hal

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Anny Ballardini
<anny.ballardini at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
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