Dated 13-May-2009

I do not know my sister
We haven’t spoken in years
We haven’t seen each other
For more
I do know her name
And her middle name
I no longer know her last

I know she has children
Three
Whom I also don’t know
Melissa, Brian and Kristin
I’m not sure her name’s Kristin
But I know there is a third child
A daughter

My nieces fight with my sister
The way my sister
Fought with my mother
The way my mother
Fought with my grandmother
And I assume the same went-on
For generations

I don’t remember her birthday
It’s sometime in the summer
Or her anniversary
Or when she got divorced
After finding out her husband was having an affair
With a girl of eighteen
Younger than her oldest daughter

I don’t know when she decided to become a lesbian
And move in with her first lover Morgan
Or when that relationship self-destructed
Like all her other relationships
Striving for a connection with another
And failing miserably
Time and again

I do not know my sister,
But she is my sister
So I KNOW her.
We have the same blood
Exposure to the same toxic upbringing
But we survived, So I know her
But I do not know HER