DAY 24: I PROMISE MY MOTHER A POEM

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Today Glo/NaPoWriMo would have us "write an elegy that has a hopefulness to it." 

So without further ado, let's get writing!

Mom last week. I would have used a photo of her at the place referred to in the poem but poor Goldie Laptop is still trying to download some 50,000 (I know, I know) pictures so I can't access the one I'm thinking of. The poem I read her is one I wrote right here at the beginning of the month. Regarding the last line in this new poem, she's tickled pink!

I Promise My Mother a Poem


Yesterday, after I got her to put her hearing aids in,

I read a poem to my mother, 

a poem about her and me, 

the time we swam naked in the river, 

and after I was finished 

she asked if I would read it at her party,

should she be around for her hundredth 

in a couple of years.


I told her I will, and not only that, 

I'll read it at her funeral.

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