![]() Ava Gripp is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She focuses on poetry and travel writing. Your Grandfather Had Secrets
Without you in the mountains another Midwest mostly East, body of water “Keep it cheap for me, Chief. Will ya?” Any bartender smiles mirroring your tight Irish grin another region missing you again I lost you in the winter considering the canyons considering your slapstick I'm riding with you to be alone A Sportster or ‘Dina riding with the Angels they look like you with their leather on The tailpipe said, “Fuck You” and your windpipe sang Moody Blue I went down to the river to feel for a moment I dipped and slashed and drowned to hear you sing your songs once more and you said, don’t go to hell for me, too Plastic septum accessory oxygen earrings catching Closing eyes dreaming of a sixth gear you say Revving, laughing, yelling booooooooom With you in the hospital driving away Only you lived for one more week You had addictions and we all do I count the trees passing in obsession One, two, blinking to see in the California pines But there is no rest there is no miracle Fish in the water that I cast my net to maybe catch you but The Bells have Tolled or told me that you are gone So go on ahead before me Singing another memory Telling another story Please One more story
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