Grandmother

"It Never LeavesSilent terror breaks,the stillnesswithin the room.Cooing softly:Done then gone. And:Then left lying there,naked;violated and bruised.Not yet old enough,to identify;with the hurt ..."

"Work. Not hard. Just long. 8,320 days long. 66,560 hours long. Getting bored, can't get out; 32 years, at this dreaded job. No buy-out coming, too old to quit. No money to retire; so here I sit. Work..."

"Reflections I gaze in this mirror day after day. Not thinking much of what i see. Hi there. I am your mirror and i am here, whenever you need me. Through thick or thin, on days you can't win. When ..."

"Mother in LawMy mother in law is really quite swellHer only problem is....well hellIt's her smell.An expert you would think she'd bewith a nose as big and long as me.She walks through a room and:Child..."

"The school that I used to attend,way back then,was smallcompared with schools of now.Problems within were somewhat similarthen;we had our bullies too.Ralph for oneappeared large and strong,to be feare..."

"Every year around this time tradition begins anew we must go out and get a tree, even if it's fourty below Clothes prepared an hour here, truck warming an hour there, sharpen the axe, get the rope an..."