A-Z Challenge: M

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M is for Margaret

Margaret and Lou

1

They lived for forty years

in a big house

with paint peeling from the clapboards

They lived downstairs

in six rooms.

Just the two of them alone

in six rooms with

National Geographics from before

the second world war.

a statue of the virgin

five votive candles

and faded plastic geraniums

2

Once they cruised

coast to coast

in a brown Plymouth.

They came home

to six rooms

with Kodacrome slides

and souvenir spoons

from each stop

along the highway.

3

The sign out front says

house for sale.

As is. Bank owned.