{"id":65015,"date":"2020-06-27T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65015"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:53:21","slug":"dear-mama-debbie-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/dear-mama-debbie-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAR MAMA DEBBIE – Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEAR MAMA DEBBIE<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I borrowed a towel from my buddy Alyssa, but<\/span><\/p>\n

oddly enough it doesn\u2019t smell like her. Somehow<\/span><\/p>\n

when I dry my face and inhale deep, I\u2019m in your kitchen<\/span><\/p>\n

with your bright smile so huge I\u2019m worried you\u2019ll tip over<\/span><\/p>\n

you\u2019re so thin, and walking is difficult but you never stop smiling<\/span><\/p>\n

somehow hauling that grin around doesn\u2019t take you any extra effort<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even then how grateful I was to know you, faintly aware<\/span><\/p>\n

that someday you\u2019d be gone and I\u2019d be remembering\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

your smell or your smile or the screen door swinging open<\/span><\/p>\n

welcoming me into to my best friend\u2019s home<\/span><\/p>\n

like it\u2019s my home<\/span><\/p>\n

like she\u2019s really my sister, like I\u2019m really your daughter<\/span><\/p>\n

like we\u2019re sitting here remembering my father together<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We laugh and cry together like I\u2019m doing now<\/span><\/p>\n

so grateful, so grateful, for every little moment<\/span><\/p>\n

like how you loved the tuna sandwich from Panera<\/span><\/p>\n

like how we sat and talked for hours and as we did<\/span><\/p>\n

I remembered who I was when I was young and didn\u2019t realize<\/span><\/p>\n

how lucky I was with a whole extra set of parents who loved me too<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll never be on another casino floor without thinking about the selfie<\/span><\/p>\n

we took when we went out in the snowstorm and had a blast<\/span><\/p>\n

snapped a neon-lit pic and sent it off to your daughter who asked me<\/span><\/p>\n

if I was being a bad influence on her mother and we just roared<\/span><\/p>\n

and I\u2019ll never play Jenga without wishing there was alcohol involved<\/span><\/p>\n

and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever stop missing you, and I know<\/span><\/p>\n

neither time nor space nor death can keep your love from us.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEAR MAMA DEBBIE   I borrowed a towel from my buddy Alyssa, but oddly enough it doesn\u2019t smell like her. Somehow when I dry my face and inhale deep, I\u2019m in your kitchen with your bright smile so huge I\u2019m worried you\u2019ll tip over you\u2019re…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65026,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015\/revisions\/65026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}