thanking_my_mother_for_piano_lessons epitome of incomprehensibility Poem by Diane Wakowski. Step into this, and you might understand why it choked up its reader at Accent_Open_Mic: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46661/thanking-my-mother-for-piano-lessons 251223 ... e_o_i edit: last name spelled Wakoski Also, I guess ugliness is in the eyes of the beholder, because the photo of her decidedly old (but not dead!) face is quite cute. It's the haircut and the round glasses for me. 251223 ... e_o_i (I mean the photo of her on the Poetry Foundation website.) 251223 what's it to you? who go blather from