transient

it seems i was wrong

today she sat in a room

in the basement

on the laptop, reading

her mother lay on a bed

in the basement

not in the room

.

she spoke to her brother

(the mother, not the girl)

"i am so depressed"

and

"i am so drunk."

the girl was shocked

she never heard her mother

say these things before

so she stayed in the room

hidden

just in case the mother had more to say

.

and she did

"sometimes i ask myself

'what's the point of living?'"

and the girl

wanted to cry

.