This was written for a different challenge. Not, this time, a poetry challenge as such, but a general writing prompt for Someone I Knew.
Someone I Knew
I don't get out much now – in fact, I don't get out at all, except for in the garden, with a frame in case I fall. The meals here could be better. Food don't taste the same at all. But sometimes I get choc'lates when outsiders come to call. A lovely lass came yesterday. I don't recall her name. Oh, here it is – she wrote it down – it looks like Sarah-Jane. Now what a strange coincidence; my daughter's is the same. We thought, that way she'd have a choice. But she said both were lame. And now this nice man's here and rabbiting away full-flow. Calls me Ma instead of Margaret as he paces to and fro. He didn't say what his name was and I'm sure I don't know, but he brings to mind a boy I once knew many moons ago.
Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings 
One of my fears was that I would hear music I loved in grocery stores and feel really old. It came true. How very odd to be shopping and hear a cleaned up melody from the Rolling Stones.
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Every time I fail to see a number in a sudoku puzzle, I worry if it’s a sign of things to come… (I don’t worry about forgetting names – I’ve always been bad at names.)
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I quit Sudoku, thereby solving that worry!
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sad that she cannot remember; nice that her kids still visit…
beautiful poem…
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Thank you 🙂
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My friend ended his days in a care home a youngster, the same age as me. He died of PSP a nasty cross between Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease with a few added nasty extras. One day I was visiting him, we were walking along a corridor him with a Zimmer frame. An old lady came towards us also using a Zimmer frame she was distressed because she needed to get home for her tea and her mum would be worried about where she was. I probably found that as distressing as trying to help my mate along and stop him falling over despite his Zimmer frame.
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Frightening, isn’t it? Could be any of us.
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