a political figure, in fact she herself had lost count of the days or should i say years since her world was confined to her room, which was stacked with medicines and prescriptions and whose furniture included a bed pan in addition to a bed, a wheel chair, a couple of chairs for the people making a courtesy call and a table on which a jug of water was kept.
and as i shared the load with a number of relatives, minus my uncle who was far away in his dollar land, i realized how light she had become since last when i tried to lift her when i was five 