Sunday, June 30, 2013

Q14: The Cabin

If I were a house I'd want to be Aunt Theo's Cabin.

Traded in the divorce papers from a rageoholic to an alcoholic,
  then painted like a kaleidoscope in a fit of redemption.

Crammed with color and quirky and crazy,
   with a thousand books,
 and the memories of two kids, four grandkids, and three broken marriages.
All the secrets of seventy years.

It sounds like bossing and cooking and a wood fire burning.
    In the morning, it's quiet, but only long enough for you to catch your breath. 

It doesn't give a damn about your approval but will stretch to its seams for your comfort. 

"How are you?" it says. "And you better be telling me the truth." 


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