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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4015 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention in lieu of flowers (poem for August 16) Michael MV (Michael Virga) She watched the towers fall, from her in-home hospice bed. Thanks to the kindness of the morphine drip, maybe the scene was more movie-like. So not to force us to make funeral arrangements during holidays, she returned before the first round of turkey -- Back to the core from where all genuine gems rise. Mid-summer - I decided ahead I'd gift her with a bracelet come the 1st Christmas of the 21st C.. Naturally, I selected petite rubies - July birthstones the color of garnet berries. But carpe diem turned it into her birthday gift: "Miss Ruby, I bet you don't even have a ruby bracelet, and anyone with a name like that ought to." "No, I don't, Michael, I never have," her voice politely timid as she kept completely still, like a child being combed, while I locked it around her lambchop wrist, unexpectedly wondering "Will it slip off"? We’re coming to you live now in her parlor of collectibles - a miniature graceland for her whole lotta love of Elvis: The Memphis King sporting his blue suede shoes and tarnish-free joy that keeps shining on A vintage southern charm, at last presented with the only rubies ever to adorn her, and I, a cyber-troubadour, on the 16th of every August, while the media makes a big deal of a celebrity's death-date - "Long Live the King" - I'm playing back the day Miss Ruby was born. |
