Excerpts from
D E A R _ D A D
Bill Luoma   2002    $5
Designed by Gaye Chan

Dear Dad,
You can't remember but you were angry after the stroke. I thought it was funny that you would yell at the staff and crack.  Shit fuckers you would yell and crack me when I was laughing holding you down securing the straps. Your fingernails were thick and long and you picked at the straps and the skin around the straps.  I was proud that you were so strong.

Bill Luoma is the author of Works & Days, Swoon Rocket, and Western Love.