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Eternal Ma

CEE

When Mom died, in 2010
I didn’t tell anyone
Everyone else with a crumb of say-so
Took care of everything
So I didn’t have to,
It was interesting, though
Of the few who can stand
To be around me at all
Almost no one’s ever asked about her
Since she died
Serious
Only two people
One got hot-rankled-quiet-ticked
Gave me a vague, “why didn’t you tell me?”
The other
Called and did the amateur eulogist bit
Answering my silencing of him with,
“I felt I Had to do that!”
Mom’s in our basement, now
Under keepsakes and magazines,
My few visitors have Nevereverevereverever
Pointed to the obvious cask and asked
So, I never get to have My haunted house fun
Lord knows, it’s all about Them

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