How strangely he seems to have taken
my sanity
as if he were the master
and I the slave
All my thoughts are of punishment
but after nine days
or ten
eleven at most
he comes back
because I bring him,
I fetch him,
I almost apologize
more or less
as if I have allowed him to become
the only person that matters
in this, my strange life
He is in the fields
being punished
when the news comes
about his mother
so unexpected
such a shock
So I send for him and tell him the sad news
then I give him three whole coins
for the priest
to say a mass
for her soul