The Innisfree Poetry Journal www.innisfreepoetry.org by Ted Jean
Brian
teenage Kawasaki in the rocky river
blackberry canes wrapped round his bleeding head paraplegic older Filipina rehab night nurse wakes his dick precisely three times joy, whopping joy, life-affirming knockout joy ensuing fifty wheelchair years produce no further bliss but satisfaction of a sort with work and cigarettes and vodka shitting easy as anybody wiping Herculean shower Saturday ordeal full ashtray patio Sunday heart attack doctor prescribes assisted living our boy mutters he’d rather die swears off eating, mistress alcohol jokes with doting hospice nurse who leaving strokes his hair then, the final nap safely around the curve above the rocky river
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