Her name is Lucette

Laura Mourino
1 min readDec 30, 2023

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Because of you I now eagerly await Mondays -

to hear your lover replay his precious time with you.

Her name is Lucette, he says.

Your name is a sweet melody that rolls of his lips.

His eyes twinkle and shine with each syllable he pronounces;

And ends with a giddy childlike smile as a punctuation.

His love for you is the kind that only exists in fairy tales –

unconditional, never ending, timeless.

Everything he does

All day

Everyday

is about you!

He wants to include all of us in this love affair.

Share your adventures, journeys -

As if it were too much for him alone to experience.

I do not yearn for this kind of love as my time has passed.

Instead, I celebrate it,

Take joy in seeing something so unreal take form before me.

And so I anxiously await Mondays

For him to share with me his love for you.

And hear the beautiful melody of his voice

As he says…

Her name is Lucette!

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Laura Mourino

Education Activist. Math Adjunct Professor — Baruch and Hunter College (CUNY) , The New School and NYC public school Math Educator (Harvest Collegiate HS)