Cord Cutting Ritual

The spellbooks say to sever a bond I need candles and string

my mother says I need a lawyer

the bank says I need your signature or you need mine

my father says all I need is to give him a key and let him call the shots.

I say I need an update, plead in unsent email drafts begging for my freedom from you

and you say nothing or too much about everything else, refusing any acknowledgment of the hostage you made me

I highlight and delete until I'm left with one-word sentences

always asking the same question, always another implied

when does this end?