The skirt my wife’s making
Of patterned corduroy…
Material bought years ago
That she planned to employ.
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It took all summer to find
Someone to thread the machine…
A daughter of a neighbor of ours
Who thinks the project keen!
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She says she’d going to do it,
Even bought an ironing board…
She says she will get to it
As soon as her health is restored.
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Perhaps I’ve been too lenient,
I want her dreaming to stay…
Accomplishing what she wants to do
Before one of us slips away.
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–Jonathan Caswell
