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“Possibilities,” Sherrill House (MA) Dementia Poetry Group 

(17 December 2018)

Go south.
Go back in the house and stay warm.
Ski.
There may be places where you can ice skate
or you can leave
and go to school
or go south,
maybe go to California.

What other possibilities?
Besides leaving, you mean?

You could stay there,
and write these things.

newgreyhair Poem Leave a comment April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

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