Aunt Flo had a daughter
She was a drug addict
Aunt Flo had leukemia
Her husband left her
Aunt Flo had a party
invited everyone she knew
gave everyone gifts
told everyone how much she loved them
Aunt Flo said she was going on a trip
She was found hanged
Vincent J. Tomeo is a poet, archivist, historian and community activist. Has been published in the New York Times, Comstock Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, EDGZ, Spires, Tiger’s Eye, ByLine, Mudfish, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, The Latin Staff Review, and Grandmother Earth (VII thru XI).