Jay Hopler's "Erasure" - by Devin Kelly
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Thoughts on this life.
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published The phone rings & surprise! It's your mother calling & the last 40 years Haven't happened: your father's alive, Your sisters speak, your wife's days Are not yet spent rehearsing for her widowhood, & you, you are still a 16-year-old fuck-up Who has stayed out too late w/o calling Her—. Again. If she could see the death mask Your face has become, she'd know you'd paid The bill for those mistakes. Those—, & 1,000 Others. All that bourbon to say grace over, All your lapses. & you will say grace When the time comes—.…
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