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E.R.B.
November 22, 2022
i told you I wanted to name my baby
Ernest or Ernst,
because the mouth shape from the
capital 'e'
reminded me of a
sickly victorian child with
puffy carmine cheeks.
the first name was always the easiest.
now I'm
shuffling through deceased last names,
holding on to shreds of
my heritage.
his initials would be much prettier with
my mother's maiden name,
than the foster system's.
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I have too many last names and too few first.