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  • Ashes
  • David Huddle (bio)

Stinking, unshaven Percocet addict, owner of thirty-eight found cats, our town’s foremost former amateur magician, engineering school flunk-out, occupant of the urn your second wife gladly gave over to your daughter who drove you around in her car for a year before passing you back to the junky wife–       Charles,         we didn’t toss your body into a ditch and walk away, but we might as well have. So embarrassed by your dismal life, evidently we’d rather eat shame for breakfast every day than let the world know how we let you fall. Brother, don’t forgive me. Don’t even smile. [End Page 55]

David Huddle

David Huddle is retired from a distinguished career as a Professor at the University of Vermont, and from post-retirement assignments at Hollins and Austin Peay Universities. He has published poems, short stories, novellas, novels, and essays and is working on what he hopes will be his twentieth book.

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