Thursday, August 03, 2006

poetry by Micheal Estabrook

My Grandma Sadie

One of the survey questions
was to name a few
of the key influential people in my life.
I didn’t have to think about it long:
Shakespeare, Dante, Mozart
Whitman, Thoreau, and my Grandma Sadie
just noticed that none of them
are still alive, but that doesn’t
stop me from talking
to them regularly. Fortunately,
I suppose, my Grandma Sadie
is the only one who ever
feels impelled to talk back.

-- Michael Estabrook

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