MOTHERHOOD - REV ROAD AND STREETCAR

she had taken so well

to this new way of life

you know how milly is sometimes?

Its like dealing with a child

six kids were really too many for

one person to handle

for a girl whose father was a semiliterate housepainter

it couldn’t have been easy

I mean have either of them even stopped for a minute

to think about their children? (Milly)

Milly cried in a sudden ecstacy of rememberance and relief

Oh my goodness. I haven’t even told you people about that

Her eyes and lips have that almost narcotized

tranquility that is in the faces of Eastern idols

Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight

One hand rests on her belly, rounding slightly with new maternity

Don’t mention

the baby

The blue piano

sounds louder (when Blanche is told about the baby)

all right again

(Stella) had the baby

his auntie knows that candles aren’t safe, that candles burn out

in little boys and girls eyes

Stella accepts the

child, sobbingly

i mean it’s always been a wonder to me

that you could survive a childhood like that

let alone come out if it without any damage to your-

you know, your ego and everything

she cried because Howard Givings was the only man who’d ever asked her to marry him,

and because she’d done it, and because her only child was insane

old helen in there is

feminine as hell

The only reason we moved out here was because I got preganant

then we had another to prove the first one wasn’t a mistake

But I’ve had two children…

Doesn’t that count in my favour?

Well I don’t feel much like explaining everything fifteen times to somebody

who’s too bored and silly to pay attention