{"id":64797,"date":"2020-06-27T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64797"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:37:17","slug":"letter-to-gram-from-stapleton-aurora-colorado-prompt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/letter-to-gram-from-stapleton-aurora-colorado-prompt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Gram from Stapleton — Aurora, Colorado Prompt 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter to Gram from Stapleton — Aurora, Colorado<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Gram:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been awhile since I wrote. I know, you\u2019d be happy if I wrote you a letter every day but you understand when sometimes it\u2019s a week or more between letters. I use my letters, you know, to understand what\u2019s been going on in my life myself as well as to share it with you. I guess it\u2019s from all those summer nights when we shared a room. I don\u2019t know that I appreciated you then as much as I should have. I\u2019m sorry. It\u2019s kind of embarrassing, my own grandmother and all. The best I can say is that I was just a kid, kind of annoying, a little bossy and one who thought she knew everything. If only \u2026. I put Stapleton up there. That\u2019s the name of the housing district where we live. It used to be the airport and I flew into the airport for work so often. It was in north Denver then and I used to joke that it took as long to get from home to the airport as it did from the airport to whatever hotel had been picked for our meeting. The name is controversial. I won\u2019t go into it, but it\u2019s going away.\u00a0 The name, that is. Work. I liked what I did, Gram. I thought I helped make a difference. That\u2019s what I needed. To make a difference. I remember what you said about books. I still read three different kinds of books each day though I kind of mix them up from what you recommended and I\u2019ve expanded what I think of as books to nurture my soul. A few lately have dinged it. Oh, Gram, there is so much going on that\u2019s so sad. We have an awful President. I know, you\u2019d say that awful doesn\u2019t tell you anything. That if I want to complain\u00a0 I need to be specific. Use words that say what I want to say. He\u2019s mean, Gram. He\u2019s been mean to people. He isn\u2019t trying to bring the country together. I think he\u2019s trying to tear us apart. He says things that aren\u2019t true. I need to stop. Thinking of him, just makes me look forward to the next election. It\u2019s the election that\u2019s going to make the difference, get him out of office. I hope. But where are all the younger men and women? Gram, we haven\u2019t had a woman president yet. I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s wrong with our country. What is it with these old, white guys!? Well, enough of that. I remember how you didn\u2019t gain weight. I wish I could remember your secret. Was it that you didn\u2019t eat a lot? Portion control? That\u2019s my failing. I love food. I love the taste of it, but I\u2019ve been working hard to keep it off. The weight, I mean. I found\u00a0 a recipe for a fake ice cream made with bananas. Always bananas and another fruit or something interesting. I love it and so does Bill.You\u2019d like Bill, Gram. It\u2019s funny when I think that you met David. We did get married and were married for nearly 25 years. I waited a long time for him to change when I think about it. But he didn\u2019t and I just gave up. Bill and I have been married ten years. He\u2019s been so good to me. We\u2019ve got this pandemic going on now. Like the one in 1918 with the Spanish flu. Mom was born that year. I\u2019m really glad she made it or I wouldn\u2019t be here now. Well, Gram, I think of you so much. I\u2019m glad you got to see pictures of Grant. Ryan came along a few years later. And they both have kids. It\u2019s been a happy life. I know you and Mom must get together often up there and probably Aunt Lucile, too. Later, Love, Karen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Letter to Gram from Stapleton — Aurora, Colorado Dear Gram:\u00a0 It\u2019s been awhile since I wrote. I know, you\u2019d be happy if I wrote you a letter every day but you understand when sometimes it\u2019s a week or more between letters. I use my letters,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64823,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64797\/revisions\/64823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}