The Hunchback Feeling

Quasimodo sitting in her office, faced with a
Gargantuan problem: Inability, incapacity,
having chalked up such a list of failures in
the recent past – all to do with bad mother-
hood –

Tomorrow; called upon to perform again in
unusual circumstances, attending the school’s
venison feast, already having incurred wrath
when lingering in the school library on open
day

Making unsolicited remarks during a science
project discussion, the hunchback feeling of
deformed persecution is coming back to her,
a haunting memory of yesteryear