Under The Tree That Owns Itself

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  • "You're
  • a
  • single
  • mother,"
  • the
  • F.B.I.
  • man
  • stated,
  • not
  • questioned. "Yes,"
  • Christina
  • answered
  • flatly,
  • determined
  • to
  • resist
  • the
  • implications
  • of
  • being
  • interrogated
  • like
  • she
  • was
  • white
  • trash.
  • "What's
  • that
  • got
  • to
  • do
  • with
  • anything?" "No
  • husband."
  • Again,
  • a
  • statement. "Not
  • lookin'.
  • Are
  • you?"
  • she
  • countered. Agent
  • Lawry
  • noisily
  • pushed
  • his
  • chair
  • back
  • and
  • crossed
  • his
  • legs.
  • "No
  • husband.
  • No
  • boyfriend.
  • You
  • can't
  • recall
  • the
  • names
  • of
  • any
  • men
  • you
  • may
  • have
  • had…relations
  • with.
  • You
  • have
  • no
  • idea
  • who
  • your
  • daughter's
  • father
  • is." Because
  • there
  • ain't
  • no
  • father,
  • Christina
  • thought.
  • After
  • what
  • happened
  • after
  • her
  • mother
  • got
  • sick
  • and
  • was
  • sent
  • to
  • the
  • psychiatric
  • ward
  • of
  • the
  • county
  • home
  • for
  • telling
  • the
  • doctor
  • about
  • Osiris
  • exiling
  • her
  • ancestors
  • to
  • Earth
  • for
  • crimes,
  • Christina
  • blanched
  • at
  • her
  • own
  • fate
  • if
  • she
  • told
  • Lawry
  • the
  • truth
  • that
  • she
  • was
  • asexual,
  • as
  • were
  • all
  • her
  • kind,
  • and
  • that
  • she
  • had
  • fertilized
  • her
  • only
  • egg
  • nearly
  • thirteen
  • years
  • ago
  • when
  • The
  • Tree
  • That
  • Owns
  • Itself
  • told
  • her to.
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