Mothers

Shakespeare was something... but Shakespeare's mum
Struck all the poxy critics dumb!
Till one found voice and then another
"The Bard owed everything to his mother!
"Or so she dreamed. Then woke to life
Stuck up in Stratford with Shakespeare's wife.

Poor, poor motherless Eve
Might not have fallen
but it's hard to believe
How could she know?
"Why the hell should I bother?
Give me that apple.
I don't have a mother."