Comparitive - Motherhood Flashcards
1
Q
The Help
A
“kids is the only thing worth living for”
“can’t seem to hold a baby”
“there’s so much blood. Why’s there so much blood?”
“So I set on the toilet and it slipped out. Like it wanted out of me.”
“What’s he going to do with me?”
“Will you fish my dead baby out of that toilet bowl.”
“Hold onto this one”
“Blood in the toilet bowl”
“Blood has soaked through the seat of her nightgown”
2
Q
Morning Song
A
“bald cry”
“its place among the elements”
“I’m no more your mother than the cloud that distills a mirror” / “effacement”
“handful of notes” / “try”
‘the birth of children is the death of parents’ - Hegal
