Alzheimer
Poem: I Am Waiting by Tom Lagasse
I am Waiting
By Tom Lagasse
I am waiting
for the call
the one
where you ask
how to get
back home.
Where you ask
about seeing
your father.
You ask
about seeing
your mother.
The first few
times I say
they are dead
that they have
been gone
for a long time,
but you cannot
remember that.
You cannot
remember being
with them
when they died.
Each time it is
like a wound
ripped open.
Now, I tell you
they are away,
back in Vermont.
Your motherly intuition
hears the dishonesty
in my voice.
Somehow you know
this yarn is better
than the truth.
I am waiting
for the call
again tonight
to remind you
of you, to
remind you of
me. To remind
you of who is
in your family.
I am not
waiting. I am
not waiting for
the first day
when there is
not a call,
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