A "Best Friend" Only Once You Die
Let's workshop this poem about the sputtering out of self-hypnotizing mechanisms for denying the greatness of a family member--an occasion, painful as it might be, for radical growth
A “Best Friend” Only Once You Die
Now that he can no longer swallow
back the poetic genius of the dynamo—
his own family member—he mocked
as some “weird-swimming menace”
(and massaged many others to mock)
in envious inferiority, he refuses to come
around even for holidays—desperate
to drown out that pie-in-the-face call
not only to apologize, but to kowtow.
