House of Paine

tales from the mary todd center

  betty ford
 meet mary todd 

        u abuse ...
 
           well
                 I  spree ...

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  i have a mother 
                now past her binge prime
         that could buy out the mall
                            on a good spree 

                     clothes were her passion 
  'fashionable' clothes 

              by the bag full

          hauled back home
              at the butt  end 
                   of a dizzying after noon 
                              of  chic shopping 

            shesez
             it  gives her  
                      " a lift "       
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          back when i'd say 

                 " what a bender ma "
              

  watching her lay it all  out on the guest bed 

         the house was stuffed with her purchases

                ' tags still on '

                  pure "fashion"
not just for her but for me too of course

for me
and aunt glynn and her brother uncle ted ...and ...

  

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                    now
                stacks  also 
                              went back too 
                        
                       ' tags still on '

                                for credit ...full credit

don't try to clip my ma

even today at 83
             
              you'd be far  better off
                        cuttin your own throat 
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                       "it gives me a lift....
                          i image 
                         i'm wearing it at parties "
  yup 
          there'splenty
               of 
        real 
              breakfast at tiffany bathos here 

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and  stacks 
   (tagless stacks) 
          went to consignment 
                          as  well

though the math
         on this latter 
as   
    a pure  cash on cash  maneuver 
                       was viciously bad  


but hey
              " its  all something " 

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yup

lanky link 
        had the template 
                my ma was cut from  

                 his mary

    my lord
            they said
          that little lady
        could spend it
              faster then a gold rush miner

            when she 
                          " needed a lift "