Bri's 'Forced-Visit' To The Finger Lakes, Sept.2014 ...... [family; Humor; Personal; Traveling; Sorta Long] Poem by Bri Edwards

Dear Brothers-and-Sister (and spouses) , and some friends,

My daughter requested I come visit my baby grandSON.
I guess she somehow feels that for me it'd be fun,
OR she just thinks it proper for a granddaddy to be….
interested in bouncing her new "ball-of-flesh" on his knee.
Oh, it's not that I've an objection to fulfilling the role …
of a visiting grandparent. I've a heart (though maybe no soul) .
And I love my daughter, Shannon, as all dads always should do,
though I'm glad she has zero siblings, NOT even one or, worse, two!

When I came west to California to be with my new gal,
I knew I might not return to New York, by car, plane, or sail.
Of course I came east "just" five years ago, to see Shannon marry,
and it was nice to visit my siblings: Bill, Jane, and Harry.
NO! I'm just kidding you all; I know their names to be sure.
I'm just being silly! I may have gotten old, but I'll NEVER mature.

WELL, my step-daughter, Moae, at wife's urging, booked me on cheap roundtrip flights ….
which will place me in the east for eleven days AND eleven nights.
Shannon had said she was taking off three days, September 10 to 13.
Now she says I can stay with them the first 3 nights and the last, but ….not in between.

Well, she didn't say it quite in that way, and I'm not sure what she thinks,
but she said she discussed it TWICE with her husband. Do you think somethin' stinks?
Maybe I gave her the impression I REALLY wanted to visit the clan in New York,
and she wanted me to feel I didn't have to stay in Pittsburgh, pulling my pork …
while she was back to work being a doctor and mom. I really don't know, but …
I don't dare object to her offer. Maybe, with HER mom (my "ex") , they don't want ANOTHER …. NUT…..in tow.

[By the way, Moae will cross paths with me as I depart SFO for the east,
as she's arriving from San Diego, to visit HER mom, Aki, and perhaps have a feast ……..
prepared as only a mother can make. (For Moae it'd be salmon; for me it'd be cake.)
Then when I fly back west, Moae will fly again south, and I'll go with Aki, if me she will take.]

SO I've got seven (how's my math?) days to kill once I'm "kicked-out-of" Pitt,
and I'll need a place to stay at night, to eat, and (don't read this, John) to shit.
Oh, I could just sleep in the rental car I plan to get before heading for New York,
and I could eat in truck stops and Chinese buffets, and bathrooms in "rest areas" might work.
But I'm writing to warn you, my siblings, and also a few friends too,
that I may be looking for floor space, a refrigerator, and perhaps even a loo.

SO put on your thinking caps before I arrive. Make what excuses you may use to survive ….
the "forced-visit" to points north and east of the Pittsburgh area, my daughter's home.
If no foolproof offers of refuge come in by the time I arrive, I then may just roam.

THEN who knows what will be my next move! I could show up at your door when you've ……
not cleaned in a month, nor hung the new wallpaper that just sits on a shelf.
BUT, after all, you may end up having to bail me out of jail IF I'm just left to myself! !

P.S. I've written this message for you all, in poetry form.
If it's unclear, I could try prose …..which for most is the norm.

(July 5,2014)