NANA'S FINALE

in your last years you enjoyed
you soaps
an Old Fashion and Gin Rummy before dinner
Culbertson's, the Lincoln Del, and a ride around the lakes
bridge at Aunt Barbara's most Sunday nights
and your twenty winks

until finally, when in the hospital on Mother's Day
you slipped your credit card to someone and said
"Go to Culbertson's and celebrate Mother's Day on me "

it was there they got the call that you had died

when Mother cried the doctor told her
"Don't cry for your mother, she had a good life"

he was right