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Remembering the Saturday Special

hot dogs,
baked beans Saturday special
Leontyne Price sings Aida
with stereo clarity
Ma makes a box cake
Duncan Hines yellow
steamed up kitchen windows
let anybody know
life is happening
here
I twist and turn toward her 
on the little green stool
each turn a question
each twist an understanding
frozen spinach too
with coca cola
it isn’t a refrigerator
it’s the icebox
soon cake aroma fills the house
chocolate icing from a can
waiting to be laid
Saturday special 3 pm
always a little rain
and cozy love within

3/15/2021

N/A  Your best free verse so far this year

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Date: 3/17/2021 9:36:00 PM
Such lovely memories....Congrats on your win Janis :)
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Date: 3/17/2021 4:07:00 PM
Such a sweet, nostalgic poem from your childhood! Congrats on your win, Janis! Blessings, Kim M.
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Date: 3/15/2021 8:20:00 AM
Sounds like a very pleasant day with a granddaughter? My mouth is watering over that cake! Sweet sentiments well-expressed, Janis.
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Janis Medders Tobechi
Date: 3/16/2021 8:23:00 PM
This was written too late for the I remember contest.... Good luck to you if you entered.

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