making one up

not all grandmothers
have great stories to tell.
some are very
pedestrian,
in fact boring. remember
the time
the well ran dry,
or the chicken that got
away and never laid
a single egg?
you told us that one,
we'd say.
so she'd think
until
she'd made one up
about the time she robbed
a bank
with a gun carved out
of ivory soap
and was chased across
the county line into
another state which was
where she met
her husband, our grandfather
who handcuffed her
to a cemetery gate.