Serve The Servants

For My Grandfather

Maby in a dream : he's in your power You twist his arm but you're not sure it was he who stole your money you feel calmer and you decide to let him go free

or he's the one (as in a dream of mine) I must pull from the water but I never knew it or I wouldn't have done it until I saw the street theatre play so close up . I was moved to actions I'd never before taken

Maby for leaveing us too often or forever when we were little Maby for scareing us with unexpected rage or makeing us nervous because there seemed never to be any rage at all

For marrying or not marrying our mothers For divorcing or not divorceing our mothers and shall we forgive them for their excess or warmth or coldness

SHALL WE FORGIVE THEM

For pushing or leaning For shutting doors For speaking only thorugh layers of cloth or never speaking or never being silent

In our age or in theirs or in their deaths saying it or not saying it

- If we forgive our fathers ..... what is left

-Unknown

DOMINICK F. DALANNI

1925 - 2001

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PAPER CUTS
HEART SHAPED BOX
NEGATIVE CREEP
IN BLOOM
NEVERMIND
RUBBER DUCKIE
SWAP MEET
ALICE
THE BLESSINGS
THE CAT WALK
SERVE THE SERVANTS
ABOUT A GIRL
FRANCES THE FARMER WILL HAVE HER REVENGE ON SEATTLE