<p>So we remember
all the elusive “Mondays”
and we savor them.</p>
<p>When he’s in college
the phone calls will sound like this:
Yes,no,gotta go</p>
<p>PackMom, you’re prescient;
that is just how it will go.
You are his fallback.</p>
<p>D has a pattern:
Most recent school we toured
Is current fav’rite.</p>
<p>Each school is better
Than the ones we saw before
New fave ev’ry time.</p>
<p>“Mom I love this one!
Great dorms, weather, fountains!
It’s calling to me!”</p>
<p>Mom who shops with D
Too depressed to write Haiku:
Bathing suit shopping.</p>
<p>D: string bikini
Mom: Lands End tankini skirt
I feel like a whale.</p>
<p>Daughter never home
Put picture on milk carton
Have you seen this child?</p>
<p>Milk carton pictur’
Is not efficient today
You may want Facebook!</p>
<p>Do you think if I
SuperGlue the calendar,
August will not come?</p>
<p>Please don’t glue August;
Then TOS’s birthday won’t come
Nor those of her kids.</p>
<p>For you, TOS,
twenty-three days are unglued.
After that, no dice.</p>
<p>Thank you, Harriet.
You can glue all but the first,
second, and eighteenth.</p>
<p>Oh and the new one,
the thirty-first, for the soon
to be son-in-law.</p>
<p>D(elivery) Day
is August twentieth for
The “Snow” family.</p>
<p>What a lot of Snows
in August! With one Snow Man
as an outlier?</p>
<p>Last night in class I
Felt dejected, Im too old!
These painters are young.</p>
<p>The teacher told me
"In music genius appears
in the young artist</p>
<p>In painting genius
just truly makes itself known
when one is older</p>
<p>Now is your time, NOW.
Work harder, live harder and
most of all enjoy"</p>
<p>Too many Leos
Roaring, and one lone Taurus
make for much drama.</p>
<p>But we have great hair.
Truly we have manes to go
with our outsized pride.</p>
<p>The mailman, creeping
So slowly, like the tortoise
With our AP scores</p>
<p>Postal carriers
Travel slowest in April
and also July.</p>
<p>One imagines them
cackling with unholy glee:
“College Board - who cares?!”</p>
<p>needless to say it
another New Yorker who’s
waiting for those scores…</p>
<p>Summer in Texas
Hot as a habanero
Sick of crunchy grass</p>
<p>July in Boston
Sunny, dry, eighty degrees
Makes up for June floods.</p>
<p>July in New York -
Usually muggy and HOT.
This year it’s pure bliss.</p>