wonderboy1027

for Aunt Ruthy

I took the pictures
of the house with 
the chair-on-top

without 
the chair-on-top
and she wrote a letter
to strange new jersey
and we got published

Now these big pockets

of her jacket contain my things

but they were meant for grenades

handed down to me

that covered her Rosie the Riveter tattoo

that was written about in magazines
she could smell a lie 

disarm a bomb 

And it was bullshit

whether the sun would have 
burned her skin

or whether her skin  
burned the sun
it was bullshit 
she died so young

and strong
-The Truth from Ruth
and her cousin "wonderboy1027"