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 \nThis isn't home.This isn’t home.  \nWhere am I?  \nWhere am I?”  \nLater,I come aroundto check her plate.  \nShes pushed around potatoes,cut up chicken  \nbut hasn't eaten either.\"Why aren’t you eating?\"I ask,and she replies,  \n\"This isn't home.Where am I?”  \nStill,later,  \nheaded back to her room,she asks again,  \n\"Where am I?  \nThis isn't home.Where am I?”  \nI show her around her room,the pictures on the walls—she can list them all:  \n\"That's me as a girl.Mom and DaddyMitch before we married.”  \nBut the next day,whenher daughter arrives,Gerry asks,  \n“Where  \nam  \nI?”  \nIn November  \nwhen golden leaves had gathered  \non the lawn,grandmother's gardener,Jesus,would rake them into large piles,while singing.  \nShe slept through mornings then,  \nwell into afternoons.But the first time he sangoutside her sills,  \nclearing the leaves from her flower bed,she woke up early.  \nWe expected her to be angry.Instead,she took her cup of coffee,sat on the porchand listened.  \nBefore long,  \nfrom her spot on the couchor as she moved about the housewe'd hear her hum the melodiesof the hymns that woke her.  \n ncaphu   \nYield→r1ntrac olpntn儿L么  \nAmong the few able to leave of theirown accord,Mable,who drove a CadillacDeville,mistook the gas pedal for the brakeand looked aghast;when suddenlyher front end rested against an entrywaypillar,left with a dent.Mable’s body was bruisedfrom the restraift;as was herpride.We watched her deflate like the airbagwhen moved from the wreck to a gurney;shed become upsef that the dayshe was frightened to see,was already here一shegave up license and keys to her family,chose to surrender her freedom for fear一aeldunlwnher fender might meet something softer than stone  \n7  \n# uanl\n\ninlu Luan rlyme  \nToo Late dn set t eas   si  心  \nAfter a brief hospital stay,Grandpa is in  \na Skilled Nursing Facility,where for a length of time,he's been sent to regain strength—still shows strength of mind.  \n   \n   \nThe pant-suit behind the deskrequests he not be gone too long:om metony》  \n   \n“Visiting hours normally end at eight,but if he isn't out too late,we'll make an exception.”  \n   \n   \nGrandpa replies:“I should hope so since my wife is dying.”  \nIn the hospital's Neuro ICU,after a massive strokeGrandma has tubes up her nose and downher throat.Her chest inflates mechanically,whilehear heart rate spikes and falls.Grandpa sits at her bedside all night.  \n   \n   \nThe following morning,staring at the pilesouunu  \n   \nof files,the scattered papers of their plans for thismoment,even the strangest things seemCall the doctor into the room,routine:shake the sterile hand,  \n   \nscrawl the signature in ballpoint,tell him to remove the tubes,stay in place一until the last gravely rattle escapes.  \nThe King  \n“This is a cathouse you know?”  \nHenry says,looking over the frame of his glasses.\"My first night,two women fought over meThe younger one won.”  \nA bell rings from another room.\"Hear that?\"he whispers,\"that bell?\"“It's how they call the girls.”  \nTwo women in burgundy scrubs and latexgloves rush down the hall.“There they go!See how they run over?”  \nHenry grabs the rail on the wheel of his wheelchair,inching himself closer\"They'll do this all night!I watch them come and go!\"  \nHearing the footfall of his nurse approaching,Henry is quickly quiet  \n\"Do you need anything else?\"she asks from the doorway.  \nDismissing her question,he sends her away,  \nhis back straight,robe  \ndraped around his shoulders,  \nand arms resting on both sides of his seat,  \nbut not before saying,  \n\"I'll call when I do.\"","cbCaiqxwjjNulccM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqxwjjNulccM","pdf",1108171,28,"English","# Memory Care\n## The Rounds\n## Too Late\n## The King","[{\"question\":\"What central situation does “Memory Care” explore?\",\"answer\":\"It explores the emotional confusion and longing experienced by someone in a memory care environment who repeatedly asks where she is and cannot feel at home.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the poem depict family and caregiver involvement?\",\"answer\":\"It shows caregivers helping with daily routines such as meals and room guidance, and it depicts family visiting while managing care decisions and limits on visiting hours.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes appear alongside caregiving in the collection?\",\"answer\":\"Alongside caregiving, the poems emphasize hospital and long-term facility experiences, decline after serious illness, and the emotional intensity of bedside waiting and final moments.\"}]","Memory Care - Poems | PDF",1789969024,43]