Mary
After 55 years
Here
She’s moving
The dumpster
In her drive
Says it all
A sofa
At a broken angle
A mattress piled on
A chair sticking up
In one corner
Say it all
She’s moving out
After 55 years
Senior housing
Assisted living now
Alzheimer's
They say
She’s moving away
She has moved away
After 55 years
It seems well tended
Convenient enough
A dumpster filled
With 55 years
She’s moving away
In fact
She’s almost gone.
-- J. K. Durick