<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Thanks For Remembering Us</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Helvetica CY'; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">The flowers sent here by mistake,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">signed with a name that no one knew,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">are turning bad. What shall we do?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">Our neighbor says they're not for her,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">and no one has a birthday near.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">We should thank someone for the blunder.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">Is one of us having an affair?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">At first we laugh, and then we wonder.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Helvetica CY'; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">The iris was the first to die,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">enshrouded in its sickly-sweet</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">and lingering perfume. The roses</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">fell one petal at a time,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">and now the ferns are turning dry.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">The room smells like a funeral,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">but there they sit, too much at home,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">accusing us of some small crime,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">like love forgotten, and we can't</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">throw out a gift we've never owned.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Helvetica CY'; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font: 16.0px 'Helvetica CY'"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span>Dana Gioia</font></div></body></html>