Thursday, June 20, 2024

My Sister and I

My sister and I are as different

As spinach and blueberry pie,

Yet together we laugh,

Which reduces, by half,

All the ways our distinctions apply.

 

Even now, in New York for a visit,

Where the weather is brutally hot,

She, a Florida gal

From a schvitzy* locale,

Will insist that, to her, it is not.

 

Still, our blood and our family connect us,

Plus our faces wear similar smiles,

So our sisterly bond

Cuts through white hair and blond

And our spinach and blueberry styles.

 

*to schvitz means to sweat in Yiddish

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