Flower Petal Finger Nails

Mikesjournal © August 2006

Image and poem used in Volume #3 of the Magazine March 2007

Flower Petal Finger Nails

My Mama said when she was five

She used flower petals

To make her finger nails.

She stuck them carefully with gum

After the flavor was gone

I wonder what she was thinking.

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