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# Mother of Invention
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- Published: 2023-10-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Discovery the mother of Invention. The father, as is all too common, absent. Dismissive of both custom and convention, with help from an occasional relaxant, she reared Invention wholly on her own, though on occasion...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Discovery the mother of Invention.  
The father, as is all too common, absent.  
Dismissive of both custom and convention,  
with help from an occasional relaxant,  
she reared Invention wholly on her own,  
though on occasion did bring home a sailor.  
Perhaps it was in trying to atone  
for any moral injury or failure,  
that she did overcompensate, or maybe,  
Invention, growing up, as daughters do,  
thought: I won't be like you, but now brings baby  
to mommy, adding sweetly, looks like you!  
And soon enough, she'll realize, at last.  
The future always borrows from the past.