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'Like Father Like' by Donal Mahoney

12/19/2016

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​Like Father Like
 
Strapped to his bed
in the nursing home,
he tells every nurse
who comes in
and tightens his straps
his trouble started
 
in first grade when
he'd make a mistake
reciting the alphabet
in the kitchen for Mother
while Father in the parlor
waited for an error
 
and then dragged him
down the basement
and made him stand
in a tub of hot coals
plucked from the furnace
until he was able 
 
to recite his letters
without error and then
Father would take him
upstairs to Mother who
put salve on his feet
so he could recite
 
his letters all over again,
this time without mistake
which Father pointed out,
decades later in the same
nursing home, was proof
his boy had learned a lesson.
 
 
Donal Mahoney
1 Comment
Dianne Lowe Breakfield link
12/19/2016 09:59:50 am

Wow, that is a very powerful poem. It brings tears to my eyes and sends shivers down my spine. Very nicely done.

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