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i don't remember much

about grandma speed. also, for.

All rights are my own.

Driving to a yellow house shingled in brown

Entering felt like walking through a museum

Pictures of faces in frames

And you were the curator

Because everytime I’d ask

You’d remind me of my own blood behind 

Every unfamiliar smile

But I don’t remember much

 

Furniture suited in plastic so

Uncomfortable 

That we never sat upstairs

Downstairs we would flee

All four of us in our socks sizes 4-10

Where couches were couches

Sans protection

But I don’t remember much

 

We would fight over which game to play

Golf or bowling? Jet ski or fencing?

I never asked why you had a Wii

You never came downstairs

A part of me knew

There were few things you could do for us

But a Wii in the basement of a yellow house

Would bring all four of us down a 20 minute drive

Right to you

But I don’t remember much

 

I was always first to tire

Carrying myself up the carpeted steps

Following the chatter of QVC 

To the table dressed in strewn newspapers

Where you would reside

There was a rasp to your throaty voice

So comforting that you gave it to your son

And his son got half

But I don’t remember much

 

A question about school

It was always good

Which was all I knew to say

Yet you were always satisfied

Smiling and sharing a story

That I would forget

But nod along to

Because you were always kind

And the least I could do

Was listen

But I don’t remember much

 

I remember that day 

Over and over and over

Because that was everyday

In that yellow house

On the street past the auto repair shop

That was pink

And across from the grocery store

All the way down from the coffee shop

Straight away from Burger King

Which you would pass after the graveyard

Where you may now lay

Painlessly, I hope

Because that’s what I remember

The aches and the room you never left

Along with the silence I would keep

Tiptoeing through your halls

All while forgetting the laughter and the noise

That just years ago came so freely

I remember that much

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