Anything But

There are benefits to having teenage parents

One of those is doting grandparents

If you’re really lucky there are also great grandparents

On my mother’s side I had both

I had my Great Granny

And her daughter

Who was just my Plain Granny

I was the first Grand, and you’d think

That Plain Granny would have stuck

But it didn’t, not past my siblings

Perhaps because Grandfather disliked it

Every card I have that he got to first

Is signed Grandfather and Grandmother

Then a single line through Grandmother

With Plain Granny jotted below

Was she plain?

Not hardly

She was educated, stubborn, 

Beautiful beyond measure

Elegant and could swear like a sailor

Enjoyed scotch, because that’s what ladies drink

But loved a beer over ice

She was completely comfortable in formal attire

At a five star restaurant

And equally so at a local watering hole

She was not always easy to get along with

She and I did not always see eye to eye

But we always came around

And loved each other whole heartedly

As you can see my Granny was a lot of things

And she was anything but plain