Pushed away: Geraniums

It receives more than it puts in, and does so without much sense of an imbalance, since taking has been the working relationship with the world for as long as there has been a world to relate to. A mother who intervened in everything and kept the strings in her own hands made independence unnecessary and then unavailable, so the capacity to contribute was never built and the habit of being provided for was. What it asks for is one obligation taken on and discharged without anybody stepping in.

Somebody always sorts it out. That's just how it's gone so far.

It echoes Aladdin at the beginning of it, an idle son in his mother's house who came into a lamp and had everything built for him overnight by somebody else's hands. The form implies a task: to build one thing without rubbing anything.