old dishes, plates, cups and things
clinking round the kitchen sink
this one came from Uncle Joe
and this one from your mom
picked up at the discount store
when as refugees they first arrived
seventy years has passed and gone
and so too have Uncle Joe and mom
all that remains of them
are these chipped memories
of a thousand dinners eaten
on scavenged 10-cent plates.
I love those last two lines!
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Thank you. It kinda just happened because I read the word crockery and then remembered the old plates I have from my Uncle Joe and my mom.
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