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Kelly Jean White

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    Melba may be 103

    but my mother says it’s not fair
    to give her the Boston Post Cane
    because even if she was a life-long resident
    and her family goes back
    two hundred years in the village
    her nursing home’s over
    the county line and the cane is for
    the oldest r e s i d e n t so
    just because her family
    donated a lot of money
    to the hospital and gave the land
    for the Potter Home she doesn’t
    deserves special privileges
    and Buddy’s coming up on 102
    and he only went to the Home
    at 99 so he lived in town longer than
    she did, leaving when she was widowed
    at 93. I say Mother, quit fussing
    that cane’s the kiss of death, just like
    being the Grand Marshall
    in the Old Home Day parade.
    You know somebody’s coming up
    on you, eying that gold-plated
    handle, 101, 102, girl
    better watch her back.


Kelly Jean White