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Granddad is what he preferred old school held 5 jobs at one time to keep his family fed and a lifetime of love with just one woman spoke about himself in the third person saying your Granddad thinks you outta take better care of yourself Meliss and your Granddad will help you out because your Granddad can that was the winter my own Father left and I moved in paid his bills because I thought he was coming back when he had no intention of doing so all my food money and budget for essentials gone lunches of popcorn and 2-can Campells' suppers sopped up with one-half dozen day-old rolls stale and un-buttered expired apples and bananas and oranges when I could get them and forged breakfast special pancakes and dinette coffee which I can't and still will not talk about then luckily for me found: one well-preserved fruitcake in its secure aluminum foil envelope made by Auntie Johanna whom I loved so well St Fruitcake the savior of my last Spring quarter's studying and eventual A-grades Granddad who then sent one hundred dollars in cash inside a second envelope ( for safe-sending) and who clucked paternally on the other end of the line in Pueblo Colorado 2 story house with its wrap-around porch and the fruits and vegetables in the Victory garden listening in Granddad John James of the blue-blue eyes the same hue as me those blue-blue eyes because his beloved Grandma Alta is no longer here and I'm the incarnation of his childhood bride Granddad John James now my Father more a Father than my own. LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POEM WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE 10:01AM PST 1/31/2022 TIME AND DATE STAMPED AND ALSO FOR THIS POET/WRITER MELISSA A. HOWELLS AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY REGISTERED AND COPYRIGHTED SITE TITLE MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD Vote for this poem |
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