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SANDY MAY
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(2/13/02 5:15 am)
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SWEET SIXTEEN
I grimace
in the snapshot,
squeezed between
a squirmy brother
and widowed
Grandma Ada,
big grin,
all bones--
a month later,
gone .

Shy
in Lord and Taylor's,
royal blue velvet
first formal.
Sly Melvin Altenhaus
bussed in from Bensonhurst
clutching a Japanese
fan.

The bash filled
the posh three-story
house, recently rented,
hastily furnished
from estate sales--

(Dad was flush in silk
button down shirts
after the war-- )

To the day
sixteen years earlier,
Grandpa Maurice
suddenly died,
first tenderly kissing
my forcep-bruised head,
the day I was born.


Soho
Traveller in the arts
Posts: 35
(6/2/02 9:07 am)
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Re: SWEET SIXTEEN
I found this in the back pages. What a tender little sketch.

PW Earsman
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Posts: 44
(6/3/02 3:10 pm)
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Re: SWEET SIXTEEN
Yes, tender, sensitive and quite lovely.

Peter E

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