(ER) Lady, a LOL, training for my brain
She was someone's mother, someone's mother-in-law
I never saw this lady without her notebook
she and I were calling it her little black book
You may have been written there, I was in it well
She'd look you in the eye, write your name in her book
Chances are she didn't know your name, so she'd ask
Seems she and you or I were talking yesterday
Then she'd write what we were saying and where we were
Her written word would be her memory later
today or tomorrow. Alzheimer's is awful
(May be continued another day--check here)
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I'm linked with Marian at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, The Tuesday Platform
Marian wrote of Notebooks. This lady we met on our China tour carried hers everywhere..
Oh that last line tugged hard at my heart... we might hate those black books... but when it's lost it just become worse
ReplyDeleteYes, one has to find ways and means to overcome the affliction before it fully takes over. It will then be a disaster, a point of no return!
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Wow. That closing line is like a punch in the gut. Well done, Jim.
ReplyDeleteoh, this is ingenious for memory. simple, but hopefully it works.
ReplyDeleteIt keeps the memories somewhere.
ReplyDeleteNicely penned Jim. Hope all is sunshiny in your part of the world
Aw! Gosh I did not expect the Alzheimer's bit. Argh!
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