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8) Grammasong

She Don’t believe in spankings
She’s found that the rod frightens the child
But he’s never scared of pancakes
So she’s always cooking them all of the time
She knows that he would listen
Regardless of sugars that tempted his eyes
And she’s so grateful for this,
she wants him to come home to a pleasant surprise.

She watches him grow slowly.
From bedbugs to broomsticks, boredom with old tricks
A grandson with sidekicks, eventually girlfriends
Sex in the tree limbs, Somebody free him!
But please don’t inform him of the balance of fate
that his dreams remain boundless after staying up too late.
(from grandson to his lover:)
This feels new. I used to isolate the traits I talked of hating;
my excuse for stopping waiting.
But not with you.
You’re like a shiny package high on shelftops,
and I am Two.
Waiting for you to fall,
for I am too small.
Take you home wrappings and all.
There’s something that I have to tell you;
my grandma needs me very much
And I’m over there for coffee, and about twice a week for lunch.
Basically I just eat pancakes, while she talks about her day
and she needs this. Hell, I need this,
so if she calls, could you please say
that I’m gonna be a little bit late tonight,
but I’ll try to make it soon, and
I won’t forget her coffee, or the paintings for her room.

She talks at length about Meredith (who’s five years dead)
and I just smile and shake my head at the funny things that Meredith said.
And the table’s filled with Marmalades, freshly made,
and taffy wound in sloppy braids, from past parades.
Well assured my love life provides a wife,
she offers me a spotty knife and rises.
“going to get more coffee”, I’m-a just have to wait.
She crosses the kitchen tile with a shambling idle gait.

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from Under a thin veil of madness, released October 22, 2012

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