Poem: Potatoes and School

Potatoes and School

 Grandpa said

Potatoes reminded him of school.

 

Potatoes and school.

 

He said he’d wake

Nearly freezing

Kindle a fire and

Throw potatoes on.

 

Going to school

He carried them

To warm his hands.

To warm his feet

He ran.

 

He said by noontime

Those potatoes almost froze,

Said he ate a lot

Of cold potatoes for lunch.

 

Funny how we’re sitting here

Eating funeral potatoes

Thinking about grandpa,

Thinking about school.

I wonder if he’d warm up

With these potatoes

And us?

 

What I really wonder

Is why he ran away.

 

September 2020