This Thanksgiving is So Sad

Calling back to the house grief 

we thought was so bad.

This is worse: we weren’t there 

for her last breath.

We should have done more 

while she was still alive 

before we lost her to death.

Stopped the bad medication 

forced her to walk 

and drink water,

took away her wine 

not lived so far away 

visited more often 

spent more time.

We didn’t know

what to do 

we did the best 

we could 

we gave as much 

as we had 

to give.

But is that really the truth? 

I don’t know but this holiday 

is making me think about 

diseases - of depression, 

alcoholism and Alzheimer’s - that 

I hate, and Ghost of Thanksgiving 

past, pointing its bony finger at me:

You didn’t do anything!

You didn’t do anything! 

and now it’s far too late.

You Know You’re Watching Too Much Netflix When

You dream 

that you have 

an entirely different Mother, 

an entirely different Father - the actor 

from “The Wire” horribly miscast as 

Prince Charles in the latest season of 

“The Crown” - but it was the same old story

We were trying 

to figure out what 

they liked, we were trying 

to please  them, to make them 

happy, in the kingdom of family 

they were our sovreign, we 

their subjects, eternally

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This man, entirely too handsome to play that man!

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