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I am experiencing unexplainable, unbridled optimism.
This is making me very anxious.
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It’s Not About the Pencil

Having coffee with my sister today
Our elderly mother’s having problems with speech,
She asked for a pencil just yesterday.
Candy found a pencil and paper within reach
She’ll communicate some other way?

Candy sits very still
Mom looks at
the blank sheet,
the pen – cil
then
down to her feet.

Candy thinks
Mom forgot
she had something to say.
Me?
I think
she’s planning to pull a MacGyver someday.

Copyright Nance Thacker 2009.