Madonna

Mother says no to
TV and ice cream,
birthdays and magazines-
her vulva, on a young
brown boy’s mouth
grows wet-
her children drop dirty
socks on the floor
and must be tidy
to earn back their clothes.

The material mother
cleans her kids’ fingers
just before breakfast-
her tongue leaps from dick to lips,
both hands
twist a piece of raw nipple, then
loins enclose pubis, and
neighbor-boy-crabs
in mother-love are lost.