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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Mother’s Day Flowers Forever 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Mother’s Day Flowers Forever 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Mother’s Day Flowers Forever Janet Kuypers, 09/10/06 #1 when I live far away from my mother you’d think the generic thing to do for Mother’s Day is to send her flowers you know, from flowers dot com, or ftd or something and I thought my mother sees flowering plants all around her house year round and flowers die so I saw silk flowers at the store in a clear glass vase with clear epoxy to look like water so it looks like the silk flowers are in water and they’ll stay perfectly still in their little vase so I did this on two years with both my mother and my husband’s mother and now whenever I got to either house I always feel good when I see my flowers we got them for Mother’s day you know, because flowers die and they kept these flowers from us and now I’m back at my mother’s house helping clean up having to sort all of her extra make-up from bins under the bathroom sink and being there to help my father with the collection of the ashes, the death certificates trying to keep a few mementos of my mother after she passed and I walk into their master bedroom now to fix dad’s bed for him and I see the red flowers in the epoxy-filled vase and then I walk out to the porch and I see the purple and blue flowers in the epoxy-filled vase and and I don’t know, at least my Mother’s Day flowers lasted Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.