What I Should Have Asked My Parents
It is too late to ask where did you met.
What was your first date, what kept you apart?
What did you study in school?
What was your wedding like? Mom, after you died, I found
your wedding picture, you were beautiful. Was it strange
to have your father officiate at your wedding?
There are only a few pictures of you in your wedding dress.
When did you get the cocker spaniel, Blackie?
When did you move into your first house?
It is too late to ask those questions.
Did you get married before moving to Oak Ridge
What did you do at the plants?
What did Dad do? What was it like to live in Oak Ridge?
I have read the books, it sounds a little grim.
Were you happy when Fred and I were born?
Why did we move to Kalamazoo?
All these questions, it is too late to ask them now,
too late to ask them now.
Remington Review
Spring 2024
