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Tag Archives: grandpa
Grief’s Promise
Writing is full of false starts and mulligans. Were it a sport it would be an inscrutable mass of expletives and rage-crumpled pages. This is not news to me, nor, I suspect, is it new to you. It is the … Continue reading
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Tagged death, family, funeral, grandfather, grandpa, grief, Life, Memory, one final attempt for clarity, promise, sedatives and swabs, suffering, writing
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The ‘Kegger’ Question
There was an argument, or rather a statement met with silence that he had said he wanted a ‘kegger’ at my grandfather’s funeral. The kids, the proper family, couldn’t reconcile this. The man who swore to his mother as a young … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, death, grandfather, grandpa, grief, kegger, Love, Memory, promises, pyre and song, vikings
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Stroke to Seizure
Irises clogged with passing shreds of something that might be himself, he breathes, blowing heavy through tight lips. the sounds of the TV bruised by the thickness of the dread-built nightmares standing in the room. One can feel the world … Continue reading
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Tagged botched by some drunk and belligerent god, death, existential dread, grandfather, grandpa, horror, illness, Life, Loss, old age, stroke
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A Land of Rum and Writing 