Old people used to always say, You only as old as you feel. Another place too-deep in my back somewhere, there’s a dull, aching pain.
Where’d you go where’d you go? My legs hurt tonight. She used to fall asleep on my lap just like this. When did your arms get so long? Your feet so big? These footie pajamas with reindeer all over them remind me of the ones your mama used to wear. Makes me want to sit here forever breathing in your scalp. Little-girl sweat-almost sour, but then just when I think that’s what it is, it turns, sweetens somehow. “Every moment for all the generations was leading to you here on my lap, your head against your granddaddy’s chest, already four years old.
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