My mother was on the Village Council

June 5, 2011  (I was 66)

My mother was on the Village Council

She first ran when I was twelve

I didn’t know she was going to do it

My wife is on the City Council

Been married twenty-five years before she ran

I didn’t know she was going to do it

I know I did not cause it

Forget the psychology of the subconscious

or purposeful co-incidence

It was not my fault

Really

I could never stand to sit

so long in long meetings

my mother to decide where the one

new street light would go

exactly

my wife to study survey consider

cross-town routes with freeway access

and judicial zoning to include affordable housing

but both of them mostly

to confront the guy whose pit bull broke

through the fence again