Stop procrastinating.
Go to your local bookstore.
Buy a copy of a Billy Collins book of poetry – check the table of contents to make sure it includes the poem, “The Lanyard.”
Choose a nice little bookmark, something that your mother will like.
Insert the bookmark into the book at the page where the poem appears.
Have the bookstore wrap this up, if you can’t do it yourself.
Buy a card.
Sign it with love.
It’s a guaranteed win.
No kidding.
Here are some flickr photos of a lanyard, in case you don’t remember making these in Cub Scouts or Brownies or whatever group you were in when your parents were still trying to socialize you.
