Anna Pauline McAnally

In my culture, Sunday

Is Mother’s Day

I don’t know if it’s a global mark

Or not

Maybe we got it from someone

Somewhere else

My mother died more than

Thirty years ago

To say the least,

Everyone was younger then

Cancer killed her

And later killed my father

Due to late findings,

The worse of everything transpired

Sickness from treatments, only

Receiving people wearing masks

When she was in ICU

Protesting medications helped

Because she was generally a fighter

Why am I taking this? at last

And I won’t take that

But she lived longer

Than the doctors claimed she would

Two years better than four months

It will be about a month from now, the

Date she died

Because it is now so far away

Her stone lies mostly unattended

Except generally in

Caretaking

An indictment?

Maybe

For we all live

Hundreds of miles away in

These our days

 

C L Couch

 

 

The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio on June 13, 1983 · Page 39

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