Turtle Girl

Her body produced more keratin than most As her first cousin I often did kind of boast. We called her turtle girl in honor of her shell A cool hiding place for her head to hide and dwell. I wish I could bring in my legs too she often said. She was never able to until a day before she was dead. I thought of her for years after her death and quite often Especially how her tail stuck out of the side of her coffin