By Cherrie Moraga
the difference between you and me
is as I bent
over strangers’ toilet bowls,
the face that glared back at me
in those sedentary waters
was not my own, but my mother’s
brown head floating in a pool
of crystalline whiteness
she taught me how to clean
to get down on my hands and knees
and scrub, not beg
she taught me how to clean,
not live in this body
my reflection has always been
once removed.
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