Another impromptu and inspired poem from the master - THANK YOU!
Words without the power of imagining - there is soooo much to unpack from that! Your talent for hammering words into haiku, or 3-lined verse, whatever it's called--- it's sublime. As was this:

WHAT, did you DELETE IT....? I can't find it now! The "do nothing" verses.

And I thought everything was forever on the blockchain.

THANK YOU for kind attention, your gift of words, your endless inspiration, @owasco!

Flippant? You? Not at all. She was asked to reminisce about the five sisters and our childhood together, and for me, she came up blank. Carol never did much of anything. Well, there are contemplatives who lead lives of silence and meditation who might assert that much can happen beneath the stillness of a surface, but I didn't bother to "go there" - I was and ever am a schlub, not a mover and a shaker, not the life of the party, not the one who'll set the world on fire. So be it. I am an idiot for letting it get to me at all, that deathbed commentary on the five sisters and the who made no impression on Lori.

So, yeah, I'm actually embarrassed that it cut to the quick and lasts and lasts, and I'm wallowing in the guilty of all my sins of omission. the things that I have failed to do - and yes, Catholics do teach forgiveness, and the saints manifest it better than any Protestant role models I grew up with. Maybe I should have grown up surrounded by mystics, pagans, and Catholics, not Evangelicals. :) Lori was White Evangelical, and I said she's one of those people who are easier to love from a distance, and she must have caught wind of that somehow and punished me for it with those Last Words....