Saturday, May 2, 2020

Where's MeeMaw? - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Where’s MeeMaw?

“A nameless number on a list that was afterwards mislaid.”

-Yevgrav in Doctor Zhivago

She always gave her grandchildren kisses for luck
After their visits when she picked them up from school
After spoiling them with candy and sody-pop
Over the protests of her diet-conscious daughter

She always gave her daughter kisses for luck
“My house, my rules – I get to treat ‘em!”
“Oh, MeeMaw, you’ll turn them into rotten kids!”
“And you can feed them twigs and leaves at home!”

She always gave her grandchildren kisses for luck –
Her sheeted corpse was shoved into a rented truck




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