| 8:00 AM |
(you confess when I pick you up
from your new home—an 80's plaid assisted living space)
prepackaged pills in paper packets
biscuits 'n butter
runny eggs w/hair (but, you say this about all breakfasts
at all the homes)
Lipton tea with cream and sugar
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| 10:00 AM |
(after dropping off a box @ Fedex)
how about some of that yummy "chocolate coffee" a grande
chocolate croissant
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| 11:00 AM |
(after you take a shower)
Twinkie
chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream frosting;
left over from a birthday party (you weren't invited to)
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| 11:15 AM |
(while you start your laundry)
pomegranate green "Republican" tea
with creamer and sugar
|
| Noon |
(because you said—hey it's time for lunch!)
strawberry white tea with honey and cream,
the real deal and that's
all you'd eat
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| 3:15 PM |
(while attempting to beat me at Scrabble)
chips with sour cream and
chives and another
strawberry white tea with cream and honey
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| 5:30 PM |
(dinner with Dad at Friday's—remember he's the one with Alzheimer's)
cheese with chicken, hold the leafy vegetables,
mashed potatoes, strawberry lemonade slushie—make that two
oreo ice-cream sundae
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| 6:30 PM |
(from Friday's 2 my hotel 2 the house)
2 oatmeal cranberry dunkers
a handful of dried apple slices
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| 8:30 PM |
(while trying to beat me at Shanghai)
rose ice tea with honey
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| 10:00 PM |
(while trying to beat me at dice—and nearly winning)
left over DQ ice cream cake
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| 11:15 PM |
(while we all lost to our Down's nephew at Pokemon Sorry)
Twinkie
organic banana chips—to which you muttered "yuck, if only
there were some peanut butter cups"
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| Midnight |
(back to dice)
and banana chips
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| 12:15 PM |
(a brief bed-time snack, please)
pretzels dipped in Skippy, creamy not crunchy and
you wonder "what's for breakfast tomorrow and when could
we eat; could we have waffles and bacon; eggs (no hair)
with biscuits and gravy—and maybe just maybe
some of that yummy chocolate coffee?"
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