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Friday, 11 December 2009

Among His Effects We Found A Photograph

My Mother is beautiful as a flapper

She is so in love

that she has been gazing

secretly at my father

for forty years.

He’s in uniform,

with puttees and swagger stick,

a tiny cork mustache

bobbing above a shore line of teeth.

They are “poor but happy.”

In his hand is a lost book

he had memorized,

with a thousand clear answers

to everything.

Ed Ochester

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