the laminating queen

my mother

loved

to laminate just about

any piece

of paper

she got her hands on,

or cut

out of a magazine.

there was

her list

of phone numbers,

pictures,

recipes.

newspaper articles that

piqued her

interest.

sometimes she'd make

three

holes into the page

with her little

hole making

gizmo

and align them all in

a thick notebook.

she was crafty,

to say the least.

there was so much to

throw away.