Tuesday, September 24, 2024

COMPETITIVE SPIRIT

 

My mother's death dropped by on her anniversary

To remind me that since she's now eighteen

She has only fifty-two years left

In which to eclipse Sugawara no Michizane

Who became a god seventy years after his death.

"I'm not sure," she said, "what sort of god to be;

Send me some prayers so I can see which ones

I feel like answering."

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