Hardly a weekend goes by,
one of us will say,
really miss Mom,
but I am so glad
don’t have to make that drive.
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And the other says something like
she was a pistol.
Damn right, kick the ass off all those women
in Fried Green Tomatoes.
Wipe the floor with Shirley MacLaine.
Lily Tomlin, too.
***
Remember the time we tried to take Mom
and her walker up the escalator at the mall.
What were the hell we thinking?
Just trying to make her happy.
Could you imagine getting to the top
and her flying through the Ladies Petite department.
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She never batted an eye.