“Notorious”

by Leo McCloskey

I was a great dissembler.

I never told father I was proud of him
after the incidents,
red-head Saint Christopher upon the neck.

Brawler and rounder,
I never told father I was proud of him,
after the incidents.

I never told the New York Times
he was a brawler and a rounder.
I never told father I was proud of him.

I owe my mother everything,
I never told the New York Times.
He was a brawler and a rounder.

We had a code of silence.
I owe my mother everything.
I never told the New York Times.

My father was notorious.


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