100 DAYS OF POETRY: DAY 22

Weekend Checklist
By Stephen Martin

I need to visit grandpa
    the weekends I am home I have left him
    sitting alone.

The TV in that room
    every time I visit it mocks me — it says
    “Hey you, son of his daughter, what are you going to talk about now... I thought so. Why don't you leave the speaking to me?”

I asked my sister if she had this problem and
she said, “Yes.”

I need to visit grandpa
    I can’t find a way to do something else.
    I’ll stare the TV down-
     ignore its dominion... bask in its impotence
    I’ll stare the TV down
     And talk about grandma
Everything else is unimportant anyway.

Photos from my grandfather's 90th birthday taken by my second cousin Margot Fisher.

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