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decorating the palm trees my mother always started trends in our neighborhood take christmas, for example: one christmas in addition to decorating the tree we had inside, she took italian lights and strung them along each branch of the palm tree in front of our house dad even put me in the bucket of the tractor so i could reach next year, a few more houses with palm trees decorated the year after, more than half the houses then she bought ornaments for her tree, big, round, foot-wide ornaments next year, a few more houses had ornaments the year after, more than half the houses my mother was always the first Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam