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Poem of the Month: November 2007

The Cure

Lying around all day
with some strange new deep blue
weekend funk, I'm not really asleep
when my sister calls
to say she's just hung up
from talking with Aunt Bertha
who is 89 and ill but managing
to take care of Uncle Frank
who is completely bed ridden.
Aunt Bert says
it's snowing there in Arkansas,
on Catfish Lane, and she hasn't been
able to walk out to their mailbox.
She's been suffering
from a bad case of the mulleygrubs.
The cure for the mulleygrubs,
she tells my sister,
is to get up and bake a cake.
If that doesn't do it, put on a red dress.

--Ginger Andrews (from Hurricane Sisters)

Journal prompts:

What is your cure for the "mulleygrubs"?
Who is the "Aunt Bert" in your life? Write a Character Sketch or reflection.
Write about a time when you were in a "strange new deep blue weekend funk.
In this season of Thanksgiving, what are you grateful for?

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