Running with Scissors: A Very Short Film Review

she started out reading aloud
to him, as all good mothers do.
he listened with rapt attention,
as all good boys do,
as each sheet of paper drifted
down from her fingertips after
being read, piling up
around her silver sandals, the reflection
of her face distorted in the base of
the chrome microphone stand.
she started out reading aloud,
telling him her story, not as all
good mothers do, and he listened
for many years as all good sons do.
One day he looked up at her face,
distorted by drugs and therapy,
and back down at the chrome
microphone stand and knew that
now it was his turn,
his story was ready to be told.
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