View from My Recliner
Lots of clutter in my living room:
two wheel chairs, couch, end tables,
exercise equipment, entertainment center
book shelves crowded with books,
pictures and knick-knacks.
On a little chair that was my daughter’s
a doll named Gooney Bird (my dad named)
sitting by a dummy named Jimmy Rabbit
I named after my dad,
though Dad was no dummy.
His name was James Richard Shannon.
When he was a kid in school
people would ask him what the R. stood for
and he, an avid hunter, would say, “Rabbit.”
Each item of clutter could all tell such stories.
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