THE FATHER
Was there a way to disappear, was
there a wait, a long wait,
patience and killing time,
what are you doing, what are you up to,
you’re still alive.
It’s odd that you’re alive,
you promised to count the days,
to wait a week at the most.
That’s what you said.
No, then came the father,
handcuffed, in fact,
he’d been traveling, from top to bottom,
and he said that he had lived and
disappeared.