as a boy with two mothers / neither one my real mother / she long dead buried forgotten / died of childbirth / they the two never mentioned her / had me call them mummy / i did / easily / boy with two mothers / each called mummy / the father they say was a brute / the real father / tried to eat me at birth / they say / i’ve memeries that seems ta support tha story / nlikely as it may sound / me two mummies is sisters / n i thinks probably bout their own father theys talking / anyhows i grows up in Drabtown / capital a iconnyclasm / an at this moment i’s making me first tentative steps tawards a secret life