To Olga

Nathaniel S. RoundsContemplative

This is a Waltham gold fob watch, heirloom from your paternal grandmother, pawned innumerable times by her contemptible husband to compensate for income lost to three day drunks. It bears, inside, this inscription: To Olga, Oct 12, 1916, as well as several rows of rudely etched numbers, one scrawl for each time it was pawned.

Incompetents from subsequent generations pawned it, then reclaimed it— a taUsman for inherited failings.

Published in Deep Cleveland J unkmail Oracle, 'Log Cabin Chronicles, Adagio Verse Quarterly and Down in the Dirt

Nathaniel S. Rounds
SourceLicence:CC0 1.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
family, inheritance, watch

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