Only parentheses

She tipped the egg cup back
like a shot glass,
soaking her eye socket
in luke-warm brackish water.

Her sty glowing as red
as the gravy in a tin
of Spaghetti Hoops. Her kids
leave their crusts like brackets.

In parentheses: she thinks
they will love her
once they are old enough to know
how much they made her suffer.