Sabrina Davilmar

"My Papa's Waltz"

by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath

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Could make a small boy dizzy;

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But I hung on like death:

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of hanging on to life by a thread or trying not to fall.

Such waltzing was not easy.

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dancing.

We romped until the pans

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running into things

Slid from the kitchen shelf;

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sliding into something

My mother's countenance

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constipation

Could not unfrown itself.

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unhappy, sad, mad, unable to smile.

The hand that held my wrist

Was battered on one knuckle;

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beat up or bruised.

At every step you missed

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walking

My right ear scraped a buckle.

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a cut.

You beat time on my head

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of getting beat by the time

With a palm caked hard by dirt,

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of ashy hands, dirty hands.

Then waltzed me off to bed

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dancing

Still clinging to your shirt.

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being to obsessive, on top of, wont get off.