rowanbot

At the end I signed it, 'a mum of three'. This was to make what I was writing about seem even easier to the readers, even though it was already very easy. I believe it was inspired by the woman I saw sleeping on the bus yesterday. Her ease of posture made me think mothering must be easy (although there were no children near her). Her body made me think that she could have had perhaps three children. She slept deeply in her pyjamas, on the bus, bookended by people in suits. Her mouth was open slightly and I could see her teeth were sparse, askew gravestones wedged loosely in desecrated gums. Her age was somewhere between 16 and 29.