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 Master Bath

By Donna Weaver

 

Bath instead of a shower and we could hear him

in the living room, skin squealing the tub, the crackle

of the AM talk radio hanging from the shower head.

 

That whale bastard’ll leave a ring, my mother said.

She spit popcorn seeds in a greasy bowl. I rubbed her

feet pulling sock fuzz from her hairy toes.

 

On Saturday afternoons they closed their bedroom door.

I pressed my hands on the carpet and kneeled in front

of their door trying to listen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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