Scent of Florida

Don’t wanna go down there wait for death 
comfy & warm in the dead of winter, 
be able to walk around in shorts & tee shirt
or worst scenario. 
A light jacket and long pants on their so called 
‘cold days’,  seventy to seventy four degrees.

Seeing what I saw those few weeks there 
on vacation,
is gonna take a whole other lifetime 
to forget.

Don’t wanna live with the living dead,
be shown pictures of their grandchildren
every time you turn around, sit down
enter another room,

grandmas with their recently deceased 
husband’s memories still fresh in their minds 
or close to dead ones stored in 
nearby convenient to get to nursing homes,

all smelling like I remember my mom smelling.


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Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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