Getting Ahead of Herself
Fearing she might miss her cue,
Kate got born before date due.
Then, for school, job or party
Kate hated to be tardy.
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She saved up and bought a farm,
bred roosters for loud alarm.
At the sound of first crowing,
right away Kate got going.
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Aged to an older girly,
still wanted to be early.
To a senior home Kate went
though somewhat young to be sent.
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Kate died before predicted,
unhappily conflicted,
knowing that it was her fate
to be, ever after, late.
Elaine Anne Westheimer 