AFTER

[Guest guest]

After my mother saw three old women on the couch

And I could not

After my mother saw a little girl in her bedroom

And I could not

After learning about Lewy Body Dementia

After my mother's yelling and violent outbursts

After the police came out because my mother

Saw a man in her bedroom

After being diagnosed with dementia on

The first visit to the emergency room

After my mother watched the chairs drink

Up all of our water in the sink

After my mother saw children be born in the study

After my mother watched them grow into drooling monsters

Licking the floors, the tables and her possessions

After she watched them die from starvation

After the Nazis took over the garage

After losing her driver's licence

After fifty year without an accident

After being fired for bringing my mother to work one day

After the Adult Protective Service Agent

Accused me of being a criminal

After my mother fell and cried out

Had twelve stitches in her knee the next morning

After she learned to walk again

Only to forget later on

After my mom was forced from my home

Because she was communicating with the spirit realm

Because she was a common witch

Something unholy, something un-Christian

To live in a hospital and die in a rest home

Where no one has ever heard of Lewy Body Dementia

" B. Armstrong Dementia? "

After doctors drugged my mother and starved her

After a police detective interrigated me

After watching my mother die in a rest home

After the grand jury trial

After I was free to go

What was the point?

Barbara Ransopher (LBD--10 months)