maggie mae

Homemaker

I burnt the cookies again.
I was made
to survive, not bake.
I baked them for him,
with my hair curled
and heels on my feet;
melting
my tar-covered eyelashes together.

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Maggie Mae‘s blog can be found here. Her work has also appeared in Poetry Now, Conceit Magazine, Amulet, Death Head Grin, Girls With Insurance, Thunderclap Press and others.