i wish alot of death
to my failure grandfather
about the way he left
about how i found my grandmother
in the basement
left to her own devices
after he had gone to the bar
again
like he did every day after lunch
she had finally had so much
of a bad thing
that she had had enough
so that day before he left for the bar
she asked him to bring some rope
from the garage
he was a willing laborer
to do what he was told
without question
it'd be a saint like quality
if he wasn't the man she married
and like she had heard
and like she has seen in the movies
she threw one end of the rope
over the rafter in the basement
made a makeshift noose
and kicked the chair out from under her.
my father left me a message the morning after
about finding his father hungover in the kitchen crying
and seeing his mother hanging in the basement.
