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Eileen Riley Behind an open door,
she sits and reads.
She coughs her age
and watches television.
She fries the chicken before noon.
Sometimes she is stuck in her ways.
Teasing her, I feel foolish
but I do it anyway.

When my mind alligns I realize
that no one is going to tell her
something she has not seen before.
She just does the best she can -
and rightly so.

I used to wonder who was older,
my grandmother or me.
now I know.

Corey N. Mann

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