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  • Your Father Would Be Ashamed of You
  • David Huddle (bio)

In her Alzheimer's fury, Mother spokewords that kept sinking in and that now riserandomly through my days. Peeling carrots,walking the dog, professing ever sowisely to attentive students, I'll hearbe ashamed and wince, or your fatherwill make me blink back tears, or treating methis way, you coward will make me suddenlyneed to walk home, finish off that bottleof Old Crow, crawl under the covers,and stay all afternoon. Mother, I'm sorry

we had to take your car keys away from you,kidnap you from your house, put you inthe nursing home. I beg you, please don't tell—I swear it'll never happen again. [End Page 271]

David Huddle

David Huddle's seventh collection of poems, Black Snake at the Family Reunion, will be published by LSU Press in 2012. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University and also a faculty member of the Breadloaf School of English.

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