Just got the nicest call from my niece, Mary.
She wanted to wish me the best of luck
on my upcoming surgery.
What was so lovely was that …
in a very few words from me,
she TOTALLY GOT IT!.
She then proceeded to articulately reflect back to me,
with an amazing economy of words,
exactly what I am feeling
and have so miserably failed to explain.
Maybe I can hire her as a ghost-writer.
Or maybe as a stand-in ghost-speaker.