1250: Gingersnap Cookies and Gardens
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/28
I knew an old lady when I was a teenager,
and as a young man.
A very good friend of mine.
She told me she liked ginger cookies.
So, we’d garden together.
She had a rather big garden.
Garden,
and garden, and garden,
and garden we’d go,
into the weeds,
into the compost pile,
pull these,
not those,
and those,
not these.
She used to garden a lot.
Divorced three times, you know?
She had a rather big garden.
Garden,
and garden, and garden,
and garden she’d go.
I was a teenager. I came into the picture.
There weren’t a lot of men in her life.
And I used to listen to her,
woes and foes,
friends and trends,
town and other nouns: Fort Langley.
We’d garden many times, you know?
She talked with me a lot.
Garden,
and garden, and garden,
and garden we’d go.
She liked ginger cookies, I knew.
“Only you’d know I like those.”
One of the last times I saw her,
I bought her some,
but I hadn’t seen her in a while.
So, I left them in her mail box,
beside the front garden.
I was working at a burrito place one time.
I was on cashier duty, fun!
In she comes, long time no see.
Even older.
Then that was it.
When I eventually was working at a horse farm,
for a book project and some savings,
I got to garden,
and garden, and garden,
and garden I’d go.
Two newer older ladies to learn more.
I wasn’t a teenager. I still came into the new picture.
There weren’t a lot of men in their lives.
And I used to listen to them,
woes and foes,
friends and trends,
township and other nouns: Langley.
No gingersnaps, this time.
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