Mrs. Yours

Am I a last name

passed on from father to son

to lover, mother, son–

through customs and countries?

Am I a last name

interchangeable as bone

to break, to replace, to graft

and mend until created whole again?

(Straight from the hip, not a rib)

Oh lineage, your patrilineal matrimony

will marry a new identity to woman

surname-changer-hyphenator.

Does it matter where I come from

when tribes of static relatives change

like bodies, like property properly

renamed. If I am his last name, who is the first?