Looks like somebody’s Mom

Can I call myself a Milf,

do I get a pass for leaving the party

do I get asked, directly

could I imagine a future for

my phenotypically confusing self and

first born child —any future child may

not look like me either and

isn’t that how I was raised.

It changes a person, truly,

to have never seen myself in the ones

I loved or tried to, who tried their best

to love me

Convenient experience, maybe

you’ve had

of looking like your parent

or at least your sibling, not like

well oh now I can see it.

My kid keeps asking me to

straighten my hair

then maybe we’d look the same.

What would that change?