One of The lives shadow Poem

If my grandmother had not seen her family

slaughtered by the Russians at the end of the world

War 2, and If she had not emigrated from east germany

and met my grandfather, a chain-smoking military

computer technician, and if my mother had not majored

in nutrition, but didn't like it and chose respiratory therapy

and moved with her friend to Alaska for anventure and

If my dad hadn't been born to a Catholic family of 8 children

and pounded spikes on the railroad for 2 years

and then enlisted in the air force, where he wanted to be an

Arial Reconnisance Photographer but was randomly selected to be

a medic, which he decided he liked after all

and later went to college in Florida, but didn't like the heat

and moved to Alaska because he liked to ski.......

He wouldn't have met my mom who worked the same job

at the same hospital and she wouldn't have made him

that sandwich that he fell in love with her for

and he wouldn't have asked her out and I wouldn't have been born

in a snowstorm and I wouldn't have wanted to learn how to write and

I wouldn't have taken Mr. Lang's AP class and exceeded my expectations

and I wouldn't have come back for more with Digital Comp.