Mother’s day: Attachment

My relationship with my mum, like everyone’s, is complicated. So all the mother’s day propaganda has been irritating me in the past week. I hate these commercial holidays at the best of times, with the saccharine advertising and the hyper real happiness of the stereotypical families they force down our throats. At the moment, when…

Pinks and ribbons

Days we’re taught synthetic warmth to demonstrate with pinks and ribbons of nauseous tradition and only love. With simple smiles that sweep aside the raw, the real the breathing close to hurt and feel That hate and love. These days ignore the push and pull of strident self or bonds that hold, in sticky silence…