She wants to see the memoir
between the stacks of fiction,
but they are one and the same
when she whispers in my ear.

"I know what started it all
because I was there when it happened."

And we drink her Grandfather's whiskey
now that he's died.
He would never approve.

11/07/2011

Posted on 11/07/2011
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