Entangled
Papa says an adding machine tape has gotten tangled up around his legs. He pulls it off his leg, but it's really his catheter tube, so he wets the bed. I tell him he's not in a tree, and I clean it up. He tells me all about it for an hour, and I to bed.
Then, he wakes me up, ringing the bell, to tell me I remembered his hallucination wrong. That really, it was a slide, coming down the side of a building, that he got stuck on. That I am losing my mind. I should be able to remember better.
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This was sort of how my life went with my blind father, living with him for the end of his life in rural Alabama. I love him so very much.
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powerful. love the "and i to bed," line. echoes of pepys...
Perfect title. Tangled inside and out.
"That really, it was a slide, coming down the side of a building, that he got stuck on."
Good writing - *
This catches perfectly the urgency of confusion.
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Powerful piece. I can feel the narrator's weariness and love. *
I find this contains much more than the word count. Beautiful and sad. Fav, for sure.
Gorgeous portrait of a difficult situation. *
Very sharp, very true.
So glad I found this. Poignant. So much told in so few words.*
You brought me up close and personal. Well done!
What a tender rendering of a complicated and difficult situation. Beautiful piece of heartfelt writing... *