The Lady In The Wheelchair

The lady in the wheelchair will be 91 on Tuesday.
She’ll be the same age as Zsa-Zsa Gabor.
Safe to say she’s learnt a few tricks in her nine decades.
She’s been married twice and speaks at least five languages.
She knows the best way to cook a freshwater carp.
She knows that spa wafers come in a variety of different flavours.
And she no doubt knows the secret recipe for Becherovka.
This year marks the Fortieth anniversary of the Soviet invasion.
40 years since Warsaw Pact troops entered her beloved city
and brought an abrupt end to the human face of Socialism.
40 years since she took the decision to send her
2 beloved sons away to safety on foreign shores.
The lady in the wheelchair knows what happened to the
head of the Stalin statue which once towered above Letná Park.
She knows that Václav Havel was a big fan of The Velvet Underground.
And she knows that student Jan Palach has an asteroid named in his honour.