for Cora Johnson
She once played a two-bit
dancehall girl in a small
Nevada town—a bit of
a floozy, Peachy Keen—
but we know her as
the most loyal of friends,
a gal who’d upend her life,
grab her best college buddy
from Colorado and fly
to Hawaii—nowhere near
a beach—to care for a fella
fresh from a triple bypass,
shivering in an unheated
rental house in the clouds,
the ladies bundling him up
burrito-style in a bedspread,
feeding and pilling him
like an ailing cat, toweling
him dry after showers,
coaxing him into short
walks down the block,
then flying him home
to me, the two of us
beyond grateful to
the two of them for
a half century of love
and friendship, for this
woman—who truly is
Peachy Keen.
•••
(With thanks and love also to Connie Raub, the other half of this dynamic duo.)
Güd wrtr 
Wonderful people all atop 💕
Oh, yes, oh, yes. Thanks, Kathy!
Thanks for your poetic tribute to our dear friend, Cora, aka, Black Barbara and Peachy Keen! Well done and well deserved. Thank you also for mentioning me as a part of the team! Great picture of Coralee housing a bathmat (?) ~ So appropriate considering the bath rituals and also showing she is not completely “washed up”. Enjoy your continued adventures in the stunning Lake Tahoe area! Love, ~Connie
Thank YOU, dear Connie, for your generous heart that you and your BFF have in common, and your great devotion to one R.D. Schmidt!