Idag är det mors dag och jag har fått en fin dag även om det började med bråk mellan mig och det stora barnet. Efter det har vi hunnit äta kinamatbuffé och vara ute och leka i parken. Selma har fått äta ute för första gången.
Till alla mödrar därute vill jag ge en dikt. En dikt av det estniska feministen Elo Viiding som skrivit lite ironiskt om mors dag i sitt hemland.
Här får ni ett smakprov:
Mothers day
On Mothers’ Day every child should sing
and give its mother flowers and prime ministers think
that every mother wants to be honoured
and all prime ministers dream
that all women who aren’t mothers
will feel simply feel rotten
more rotten than ever before
so the government gives mothers
special advantages
and passes a law on parental salaries(…)
the prime minister thinks
that every mother has a heart of gold
on a chain around her neck
that every mother has read child psychology
that every mother is well acquainted with gender release and with the child’s father
that every mother lives in a centrally-heated flat with hot and cold running water
that every mother is a Hansa Bank customer and dreams of obtaining a loan(…)