meaningless concepts
your mother has brown skin
mine has none
your brother looks like me
[but you]
you look like no one else
your mother
she has amazing skin
sometimes a complete blur
dancing circles in the falling rain
your sister’s a younger version
[of you know who]
as independent as they come
working on dance moves
of her very own
your mother has brown skin
and mine has none
april two thousand twenty-three
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