Grimbeau

Tried to think up some words

about Dad

and

got no further than the death event,

clearer now than ever,

calmer,

or so it seems.

Should feel more hurt,

of course,

wear a flag of woe.

Or black with good cause.

And Mean it.

Thirty fucking years ago.

Now we both have no teeth and bad feet,

I trumped you with the wheelchair:

No huffing there.

Losing hair as well, but not white yet.

Far from it.

Not like you at twenty-two.

I lay in the same corner as you now,

on a hospital bed.

Not dead, just resting.