One Mother

I keep falling in love with my mother

I don't want to hurt her

Of all people to hurt

Every time I see her she's grown older

But her uniform always amazes me

For its Dutch simplicity

And the doll she is

The doll-like way she stands

Bowlegged in my dreams

Waiting to serve me

And I am only an Apache

Smoking hashi

In old Kabashi

By the lamp