Crazy Love

Never sleep with the crazy

Is what they always say

I’ve done it a couple of times in my life

And a couple of times they stayed

One was fixated on my mother

So any of her sons would do

I was the only one who took the bait

And she moved into my life too

She had a mean right hook

Which she used a couple of times

I also remember my jaw took

A hit from a purse full of dimes

We were at a Linda Griffiths show

It was Maggie and Pierre

On the way out she gave me a glancing blow

Just because I was there

She got close to my mother

Which she wanted all along

She tried to screw both my brothers

And she didn’t think that was wrong

She came to my mother’s funeral

Probably the last time I’ll see her

Her Parkinson’s by then had become general

I kissed her goodbye and drove home in tears