brother’s house
seventy years a bachelor
known and regular,
his mother kept house to the end.
he put out word,
and her sob story got to him.
but it didn’t matter to his sisters
what she did or didn’t,
she was the usurper,
she had moved in on him;
housekeeper/gardener be damned.
facts were gathered:
stuffing the freezer with processed food,
mother’s silverware jumbled in a drawer,
Wedgewood in the […]
