Talking in the Dark by Billy Merrell

Talking in the Dark by Billy Merrell

Author:Billy Merrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2003-10-15T00:00:00+00:00


the same way the water had worked

away each night at the red bricks, turning them

into thin, smooth honeycombs, beautifully

unrecognizable, but so much less than the boy’s dream.

I am writing this to you because I have given up.

Love went first, and with love, sex. So with love, you.

I would have loved to hold you, hope for you

to love me as I do my father, free of reprieve.

I’d tell you the things we don’t tell our children

and don’t know why we don’t, and teach you

the things my father taught me: how to eat like a man,

leaning over the sink so that you won’t have to clean up



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