Father
Mather Schneider
“And above all he looked to be filled with a horrible sadness.
As if he harbored news of som horrendous loss
that no one else had heard of yet.
Some vast tragedy not of fact or incident or event
but of the way the world was.”
- Cormac McCarthy
The old janitor has been up all night cleaning the school
and now it is nearly dawn
and he is at his last mirror
and his spray bottle is like the gun
that he will put in his mouth when he gets home
and the blue liquid tears run
and he wipes until the squeaking
sounds like morning birds.
