Sticky Note
For most of her life she wanted a tattoo
But was leery her mother might yell, gnaw and chew
The unicorn landed!
Mom won’t understand it
And Mo doesn’t know what to do!
Barclay Ann Foubert (nee Nelligan) 1956-2006
Found sticky note
(stuck to a second sticky note)
Dear Mo,
I don’t understand it but I realize you’re a big girl.
I don’t have to love what you do but I love you,
with or without decoration.
Love
Mom xxx
Funny the way memory works. I did not remember this, I only
remembered her initial “you do these things to shock me”, that and
“what are you going to tell your grandkids about the giraffe with a bump
on its head”… which now I know is a quote from Joan Rivers.
My mother loved Joan Rivers. And me, as it turns out.
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