Lancaster One Minute Monologues 2020

AFFECTED
Catherine McLoughlin
She can understand how this poor woman
must be feeling, with her determinedly
murderous son on trial for prison or his life,
because, she says, I’m a mother and that
is how to demonstrate the compassion
equivalent of a doctorate or two.
Yet, all the same, she votes to dispatch him.
What you, despite your unfeeling womb,
can understand is that the blows he directed
were much less numerous than the ones
he got through his small, weak years
(I was quite hard on him – a sad smile);
but much harder and heavier, concentrated,
as if he had her under his sledgehammer.
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