WHY WE ONLY HAD A FAMILY REUNION ONCE

Children don't play outside no more leads to daughters don’t help in the kitchen no more and I drop rice on the carpet but kick it towards my cousin so it looks like she did it

I ask a woman I don't know what her relation is to me and she says I'm standing by you which is more than I can say for most of my other relatives but I don’t tell her that I just laugh

My relation to this glass is that I'm holding it which is something I miss my mother doing holding me/on/us together don't embarrass me in front of these people not even directed at me but

I know those words and that tone we all do don't make me into a metaphor says the glass in my hand and I think it's a privilege to ever think that you can control the actions of others

For some reason we are leaving now as daughters don't help in the kitchen no more led to mothers ain't role models no more and I'm sad because I never got to try the cake which was

the only thing store-bought so I had faith in it