Disposing of Grandma (In Accordance with Her Wishes)
My peregrination was in concert with her wishes.
I gave her son her aardvark shell. Her daughter got her dishes.
Her grandson got the fireplace poker used to vanquish foes
back when he was little, dressed up in Zorro clothes.
Her nieces got the teacups from which they used to sip.
Her nephews got her silver spurs, her saddles and her whip.
Her best friend got her two old cats. Her snake went to the zoo,
so there is only one thing left that she left for you.
She said to give you Grandpa, for she regrets the theft of him
back when you were young so now she leaves you what is left of him.
The division of her ashes between our favorite places
insured that she rejoined the earth with no apparent traces.
We sit here in her empty house, depleted and bereft,
now that it’s only memories of grandma that are left.
Prompts today are concert, ashes, division, peregrination, fireplace and aardvark. All photos by jdb except for spurs by Scott Warman and teacup by Lydia Mazal on Unsplash. Images of whip and pokers borrowed from Amazon.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Mine mother, too: Places and people all got a share, as she requested, and now she’s still everywhere.
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A lovely way to leave
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Great poem, both in construction and in thought, if you ever write one for me, it would be 100 pages long and cover many things others have never seen or heard of~! Bet you would say the same~! A good start would be a decorated box of beautifully painted hollowed out eggs called “pysanky”~! Or a Betty Lamp which would bring maybe fifteen cents on a garage sale, but would be worth much more to a museum. What will happen to all that “stuff”, including “grandpa” when I am gone.
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Is that a Betty Boop lamp? That would be an interesting question.. what are the ten things you value the most and who would you leave them to?
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The title is hilarious and the poem is wonderful. Grandma is quite the character!
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Beautiful
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Quite the touch to return grandpa to a previous suiter.
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I love the saddle, spurs and whip. You GO grannie!
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I have toyed with the idea of bequeathing things but gave up. Let them all take what they want, or not take, whatever they want.
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