John Enright
Looking Back From Another December
Well, my mother couldn’t die again this year,
and I got to spend a month in Ireland
getting fatter. Liam broke no bones
and nothing close to me burned down.
All my ex-lovers got a year older
and I traded up to a nine-year old pickup.
I started to learn how to make curry.
I published a book of prose that arrived
on the scene like a coastal blackout
I still got to treat my body as if it were
thirty years younger than it is, and
right before dawn with a full-bladder hard-on
I still get to dream about young girls, their
unreal eyes dark with innocence and lust.
and I got to spend a month in Ireland
getting fatter. Liam broke no bones
and nothing close to me burned down.
All my ex-lovers got a year older
and I traded up to a nine-year old pickup.
I started to learn how to make curry.
I published a book of prose that arrived
on the scene like a coastal blackout
I still got to treat my body as if it were
thirty years younger than it is, and
right before dawn with a full-bladder hard-on
I still get to dream about young girls, their
unreal eyes dark with innocence and lust.
John Enright, of the Enrights on Main Street, of natural causes in Samoa where he has lived for the past twenty years. He is survived by himself and his son Liam.
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