Terrible Nightmare
I had bad dreams with my mother’s body so beaten-down.
My mother was very beautiful once.
The world’s ugliest cat tried to drown a scrawny kitten with worms.
I begged so hard, cried even, to let out my mother.
Author: Abdel
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