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(megive; Anothercummings

(megive; anothercummings it’s a feeling to see a book fade: ink washed out, pages wilted, with scoffingsmellsofoldmustsandshalls. and it’s a bad memory when remembered daddy forgot to play football and you moved away fromhisdoominglove. is every memory really seen through a forgotten father. Edward Estlin, tell me the truth, is it true your father grieved through joy, praised your forehead and sang like sirens? But such lavish questions of a father that forgot the simple wispsofcackleandcaper of an abandoned tyke’s love are too impossible to ask. No, to give is to have, daddy’s memory isn’t my fault and I too have meaning.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 9/4/2009 8:11:00 AM
Wow...this is so sad and heart wrenching,... a boy who needed to know love, learning it wasn't is own lacking, but that of his father.. so well done, and more touching by the cummings style..
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