21. My father is run over by a car.
He is passed out in the road with a blood alcohol content
The nurses lose his pulse,
19. I haven’t brought a friend home in four years.
18. My mother sips the word “divorce”
Her mouth curls at the taste
Like it burns going down.
17. I start doing homework at Starbucks.
I have more meaningful conversations with the barista
16. I wait for Christmas Eve.
My brother and I usually exchange gifts to one another early
And my father exchange blows.
My mother doesn’t go to mass.
15. I come up with the theory that my father started drinking again
Because maybe he found out I’m gay.
Like if he could make everything else blurry,
Maybe somehow I’d look straight.
15. My mother cleans up his vomit in the middle of the night
And cooks breakfast in the morning like she hasn’t lost her appetite.
15. My brother blames everyone else.
15. My mother blames the dog.
My father bursts through the door like an avalanche
Picking up speed and debris as he falls
Banisters, coffee tables, picture frames
I find his AA chip on the kitchen counter.
14. My father’s been sober for 10,
We don’t even think about it anymore.
11. Mom tells me Daddy’s “meetings” are for AA.
She asks if I know what that means.
10. My parents never drink wine at family gatherings.
All my other aunts and uncles do.
I get distracted by the TV and forget to ask why.
6. I want to be Spider-Man.
The recurring one about Ursula from The Little Mermaid
I waddle toward Mommy and Daddy’s room,
Daddy’s standing in his underwear
Silhouetted by refrigerator light.
Zero. When my mother was pregnant with me,
That her baby boy would grow up to be
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