That Evil Uncle Sam

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He brought her lei leis from Hawai’i to

Her nursing home in Florida before

Departings, first by him for when he flew

Away and later as the open door

Of death left him without her.  He long gone

In England had remembered long ago

Havana orchids he had bought her drawn

By mother love.  He never got to show

Them to her since the government had grabbed

Them at the airport, government had snatched

Them at the customs gate, an uncle crabbed

With laws, unfeeling rules and laws detached.

  Then decades later he flew lei leis in

    For her beside her bed, reversing sin.