Fair Maureen

“Married my father,
I should turn into my mother.
Right?”

No affirmation offered.

“Alcoholism is the fate of Irish Catholic
women with abusive husbands
and they’re all abusive.”

Take her snifter.

“Mom, started with cooking sherry,
then cough syrup,
then Jamison’s by the bottle.
I’ll show her.”

Drowned in Hennessy.

“Fuck confession,
I’ve got a toilet.”