Alzheimer’s [1-11-13] 

For Babci and Memere 

Is that you?

Ring ring –what was her number?

Ever see that woman in 155 Homestead Ave.?

Not the one with nine people restraining her?

Ever have those thoughts and can’t conjure them again?

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Is that you?

Receive his sentence yet, the drunk?

Ever have the firefighters come just for you?

Now how’d you get so tall?

Ever want to laugh until you cry?