Your Dad Never Did, in the End

160 todd boss Your Dad Never Did, in the End, buy, fix up, move into, and die in an abandoned country church, town hall or bell-andflagpole schoolhouse like he always said he would, though he’d spent a lifetime pointing them out where they stood, too fallen to be proud, but still high along some South Dakota ridge or Nebraska plain on a family drive— There’s a beauty, 161 he’d say almost inaudibly, and, farther down the highway, sigh. ...