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A.D. Winans
POEM FOR MY FATHER TWO

 

I look at your picture hanging

On the wall

Think back to the conversation

We never had

The way you sat there

And stared out the window

The last year before your death

 

No amount of drinking

Can erase the memory

As I toss one drink after another

Past soft liver tissue

Trying to avoid the vacant

Look in your eyes

Pieces of my brain stapled

To the lamp shade
UNTITLED

 

I have sat one too many evenings
watching old me and women
eat their last meal
One eye on the dessert the
other on the obituary column

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