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Zigi Lowenberg's avatar

thanks for this, so thoughtful, so real. stuff of aging and rumination. our stories. our parents stories.

though I wish for a more gracious line written in response to the Wife.

—from a dinner cooker herself. another wife.

Zev Shanken's avatar

Thanks for your comment and wish. I’d tried more gracious lines (in the poem and in real life). But they all seemed for the camera.

-Zev

Zigi Lowenberg's avatar

ooh, you gave me a prompt Zev; maybe I'll write a poem, "god is a camera"

;-)

Zev Shanken's avatar

Moses beat you to it.

They didn’t have cameras then,

so the point was made with words.

Meyer Rothberg's avatar

Ah, to be 81 again.

Martha Gershun's avatar

Wow, yes. Thanks for this.

Irwin Rosenthal's avatar

Grim and thoughtful.