Lucky to Be Here Felicia Nimue Ackerman Brown University, USA Lucky to Be Here My daughter tells me I am lucky to be here instead of in her five-bedroom home, with space for another child but not a grandmother in a wheelchair. I am lucky to be here. My room yellow as the sun, which warms my face. On the porch I endure people age and abandonment. I am lucky to be here, the best nursing home, instead of where I would be if people knew what killed my unfaithful husband.