Long Way Down — Pop Gave Uncle Mark

POP GAVE UNCLE MARK

a look when Uncle Mark

asked if I had ever heard my father’s story.

Of course,

I said.

He was killed at a pay phone.

Worry washed

over Pop’s face.

Opened his

mouth to speak

but changed

his mind,

then changed

his mind again.

That’s not the story

we talking about.

What you know is how I was killed,

Pop explained.

But you don’t know . . .

You just don’t know . . .