Bad Egg
Kerri Shying
they blame that egg
round my house
for all my stutters
clinginess the woes
our people
my father says are all outgoing
mum
fast to point to tennis-playing
railroad-builders me
I go down fast
on the regular
my bad egg
baked into my brain
you can check and check
and then there's me
ghost in this machine
little scale out of balance everybody quick to say
our treasure I'm a gift
with no return address
Feature Image Latvian postage stamp to commemorate Christmas with drawings by the Latvian writer and artist Margarita Stāraste (Public domain)