choke me now

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"We'll be visiting your Father and Aunty Aoi today."


The cold milk of my cereal 

nearly chokes me

but I swallow it firmly,

"What?"

I heard Mother the first time round,

but a part of me holds onto

the thin slip of hope

that I might've misheard

her death sentence.


"They invited us for dinner, 

we'll be going after you come home.

Be good at school."

Mother shucks on her coat,

grabs her handbag,

and rushes out of the door.


I turn to Suki

and she stares at me.

Her eyes mirror my confusion,

my discomfort,

and the underlying feeling

of sick anxiety.


"I'd almost forgotten them,

and now we're going back?"


"It's only to visit,"

my reassurance is true but empty.

The feeling from this morning

stirs again.


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