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The Bad Enough Mother: A Defense

Jessica Michalofsky

A literary defense of bad mothering; a phenomenological (in the broad sense) exploration of drugs, hope, and other forms of magical thinking; an apology to my son Aubrey and anyone who uses drugs

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Talking with the dead

I hear them before I see them. Two sisters in the grocery store.

Friday afternoon, about 4:30pm.

One pushes a tiny cart piled with food, the other, younger, runs the length of the aisle shouting.

Mom.

I'm in the same position at my...

4 days ago
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Cling, clang, clung

In a previous lifetime, I might have described my relationship style as the current psychological literature does: anxiously attached.

The label would make sense. My fractured family of origin, and early and ongoing exposure to violence p...

7 days ago
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Six days before he died, my son sent me an email.

Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 4:52 AM Subject: Computer disc key

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12 days ago
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2nd person

The first orgasm was a fat baby with red pimples.

The second deserved it.

The third and fourth were twins.

The fifth orgasm arrived late.

Six thru ten lined up against a wall, presented their fragile flesh.

A firing squad.

Eleven, oh!...

17 days ago
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Use me

The 2009 red Nissan Versa, black fabric interior, hatch-back, 6-speed, c-d player, roof racks, set of snow tires not mounted on rims.

189 thousand to go on a mortgage on a 30 year plan.

CUPE & BCGEU positions since 2007. Five weeks of vac...

a month ago
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