From her Grandfather Peters and his leadership in the Mariaville Chatauqua and literary group through Fern, her mother's own interest in reciting and writing poetry (Nellie, Glenn, and Myrtle, too), Mom (Velma Koftan Luckert) had a popular gift for reciting dramatic poems like "No Kicka My Dog," "Little Orphan Annie," "Casey at the Bat," "The Cremation of Sam McGee," and others, including this--for our time--risque little effort, which rappers and other vulgarians today would find silly and certainly not offensive. It is in her handwriting.
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