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My Grandfather

Hank Threadgill

was born in 1871, the year
Rimbaud died in Ethiopia,
then called Abyssinia
if my scrambled
brain serves me right.
I swore I’d never tell anyone
this story, but seeing how
Alzheimer’s and death
run in my family
tree and tumors
any day might start spreading up here
in my head, here goes:
I used to have to
give the old man baths
and one time he forgot I
was my father’s son
and asked if I wanted to play
Nancy Boys. I said I didn’t know what
Nancy Boys meant and he said:
It’s when you pull my pecker
and I pull on yours.
I said: Easy there, partner
and stormed downstairs
to help my mother
with the dishes
and throughout the 43 years
the Lord gave me with my wife
this was 1 of 2 things
I kept from her.

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