Irish Queen Maureen

i have to spare a moment for maureen who bought a junkyard truck for a dollar put a gun in the glove box and got the hell out of lawrence who landed on Venice beach who took night shifts at a women’s prison and found herself an honorary inmate

maureen who came to my wedding in nana’s backyard who paused her road trip to witness a wedding that would not be possible when she bought a truck for a dollar and drove until she landed three or four thousand miles away at Venice beach

maureen who days after the supreme court said people like her had a right to marry uploaded a facebook selfie showing her sandwiched between two women one-third her age and naked both of them painted in stars and stripes

maureen who still takes in stray men she finds hungry and alone in the parking lot at denny’s

maureen who has seen impossible things