Black Poetry : Dad

gempis

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May 5, 2003
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Seattle, WA
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strength coach
I could go on about
how you're a tough guy in
classic old school man form
yet with a heart so tender
underneath it all
but the point here is that you
have always been one of the smartest people around
knew the answers to everything
have read every book on the shelves of
your den, or should I say library
our reference manual
taught bro and I to
look in books for the answers
to just look in books, period
I really owe ya for that one
but the mild stroke you suffered a
year and a half ago
has slowed you up mentally
made you a little tired physically and
the crystal clear sharpness we
always took for granted has
dulled, like a polluted stream
I gave you a crossword puzzle book for your
birthday last week so you can keep your mind
running on the treadmill
but when you called last night to
tell me they'd found prostate cancer yet
it was benign and caught in time you
repeated some things twice and
asked me what was up with me twice too
and a few other things more than once because
you forgot you'd said them and
I just answered each time like it was the first
that is my new way and
bro says when he goes to
football games with you that he
holds your hand when the
crowd gets too loud just to
reassure you
I mean by now I know that
most tough people are frontin so I can
accept the slow down but
my brilliant father's brain in a partial
choke hold is a
shadow on my heart
and I know your parents have to get old but
to you they're always just your parents
yet sometimes you really see them and
oh my god it's like your grandma used to
look way back when I
can deal but I guess I
can't believe I'm still so surprised
 

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