Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey

Author:Ollie Schminkey [Schminkey, Ollie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-943735-00-6
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

I WRITE MY DEAD NAME IN MY FATHER’S OBITUARY

but we are not here to have a funeral for my name.

we are here to have a funeral for my dad, who died in my hands.

whose tongue gutted the roof of his mouth on his last breath,

whose spit congealed in the corners of his lips

like snow after a sloppy plow.

i write my dead name in my father’s obituary.

i don’t even think about it.

my dead name doesn’t feel like such a dead name

while i’m standing next to my dad’s corpse.

i don’t feel bad about writing my dead name

in my dead dad’s obituary.

what does it matter which name my dad used to call me

when he can’t call me anything anymore.

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