Grandmother

Dear

On your 70th birthday I would if I could have bought you a flash Datsun Pick-up, auto-controlled for your every comfort.

I would if I could have built you the finest of all fale — palagi, For your delight a refrigerator and an electric stove a 21 inch colour T.V. set On the verandah a rocking chair to creak your aging bones to rest.

And if I could 1 would have changed your life for what I though was best for you.

Your new day would have strictly consisted of three meals, two baths and evening Pick-up ride, and early to bed.

Yet it seems so pointless to try and change you, when you are so happy and real.