Obituary (Props to Victoria Chang)

Sylvia Siegel was born in Rochester, NY, on September 29, 1918. The daughter of Jewish immigrants, no that’s not how I want to start. Sylvia Siegel married Joseph Grossman on June 1, 1951, in Manhattan, New York. They separated in October of 1953, no, that’s not it either. Sylvia Siegel was killed in a car accident on Mexico Highway 2D on May 22, 1972, no, no, no. Sylvia Siegel lived fifty-four years and was a loving mother to her son Gary, who survived her passing. NO. Sylvia Siegel led a troubled life, perpetually trapped under a glass ceiling that held women down until the twenty-first century, and the lack of effective psychoactive drugs for control of bipolarity. Almost there. Sylvia Siegel …

Gary D. Grossman
First Literary Review East
March/April 2025