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letter to marla harris - first cousin paternal branch

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and the mucho years since harriet harris (me late mum) passed remembers that emotional gash, and thus i wished to bestow my heartfelt pain sans this grievous loss with an ode written soon after my mother exhaled her last gasp.
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Goodbye Mother ™ a son pay in (i.e. paean) homage

   to his long deceased womb durr full mama

    Her cremated ashes scattered to all the four winds

White, powdery and chalk like material

Devoid of any vestigial semblance

To her once living and vibrant self

That unique persona pulverized and vaporized

(Housed former svelte and tall Arthur Murray

Ballroom dance teacher A half-century plus prior to demise

Which beauty, charm and grace

Quickly caught the attention of my father

Who courted and eventually proposed

To this young flirt and tease of a gal)

Inert organic matter now represents

Sole residual embodiment

Reduced to dust and near nothingness

Former corporeal being of blood, bone and flesh

Weighing no more than A dozen hatch marks on the scale

Absence still bears down heavy

Like some millstone round the neck

Per the black hole son voided

Created by defeat with Grim Reaper

Toward this woman

Who helped birth and nurse me into manhood?

Momma’s only grown son Still feel ripples of grievous sadness

No matter the years of suppressed anger and rage

In addition to emotional conflicts between us

Which invariably wrought unpleasant relationship

And a legacy of discord writ large

Across the harris woven tapestry of my life!

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From: Matthew Harris -

quite attentive to communicate
sentiments of paternal love to his 2 charming daughters
   4 the hands of father time spin so fast -

   mortality an unavoidable fate
thus at this crossroads in life -
   cherish special persons, a lesson learned late
while still healthy atop this spheroid oblate
and material trappings minimally i rate
understandable that ye need to mourn
n may for some weeks thee will ululate!

 

 

 

 

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