Four by Four
Jeff McCallum
jeff@marksman.net
The hospice nurses came two by two
or rather
one after the other
asking questions about love and dying
until her husband was too tired to answer
and she
after sixty years of marriage
too dumbfounded to understand the why
They forgot to leave
the little pamphlet that was to make it all so simple
so my mother told me
Published: April 15, 2008 |
