They Can't Take That Away from Me by Gail Mazur

Author:Gail Mazur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

fact or story, I encourage the grandfather,

I want to be treated well myself some day,

when I’ll need it even more than I do now. . . .

My little bids for attention, my birds, fragile

fluttering words, desire to be visible and seen. . . .

“FDR was okay, wasn’t he?” I’m playing

90, it’s what I do to make us both

less lonely, reminisce as if we’d shared

the ’30s, as if I’d been there, come

from Sicily or Limerick, a seamstress

earning her hard living one town over.

I always sat this way with Doc, years

after he’d retired, his best treasure

(besides my golden mother) a gold

pocket watch, a handsome Waltham watch—

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