Mother’s Day, Coney Island: Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Home
Hugh Seidman
1992
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And veins web her temples,
and my father pins on the orchid,
and my card names her the best mother.
But Alzheimer’s or arteriosclerosis (the end is the same)
praises him ad nauseum,
but accuses my absence, my silence.
And if he leaves she calls me Monas,
or if the nurse asks: Is this Hugh?
she only says: Hugh is Hugh.
Nor can she think where…
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