And multi-punctured ears,
You look more like someone
Out of Rolling Stone magazine
Than my baby girl of seventeen.
A Bob Marley T-shirt
And hip-hugging jeans.
You're swaying around the kitchen
While I attempt "Catch the Wind"
On my guitar.
Yeah! We're both keeping the beat.
Your macrame necklace
Bounces on your chest
As my Dollar Tree readers
Balance midway down my nose.
The same, but different,
That's you and me.
Confirming the old saying:
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
(c)Patti Fay Schmitt
published in Skipping Stones 2007
Mindworm Press, Chesapeake, VA
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