My Mom Offers to Send Me My Grandfather’s Poetry

“Some of it is pretty dark,” she warns.

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“I was going through Papa’s papers and I found some poetry he’d written,” Mom tells me over the phone.

“Oh, I didn’t know Papa wrote poetry,” I respond, curious.

“Me neither,” she says. “I just have to warn you, some of it is pretty dark, so I don’t want you to be…