04-17-2014, 01:46 AM
Empty boxes
Two young sisters sat under the dining table
with paper and pencil, playing
a game on the grid they drew.
Line by line, each square would earn
a C or M, a point claimed to total up.
Mom cried out in panic,
M stood so fast she bumped
her head, the ambulance
came and took dad.
Mom said later,
"I'll never watch those hospital shows again."
Forty years later C told the story,
complete with bumping her head. M wondered
which memories were truly her own.
Two young sisters sat under the dining table
with paper and pencil, playing
a game on the grid they drew.
Line by line, each square would earn
a C or M, a point claimed to total up.
Mom cried out in panic,
M stood so fast she bumped
her head, the ambulance
came and took dad.
Mom said later,
"I'll never watch those hospital shows again."
Forty years later C told the story,
complete with bumping her head. M wondered
which memories were truly her own.
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