Mangos By Telepathy

Texts and Images:
E. Jeremy Shalom
Fri Dec 18

mom was embarrassed

My mother was embarrassed when I had to borrow

even salt from you. “Groundless” was the word she used,

along with “typical American youth!”

Extended family shame caused by your and my enjoyment,

enlarged coda from a three generation long concerto,

as everyone knows but no-one says.