watching the game
looked over
saw my father
asleep in the chair
the first time
he said he didn’t
get up on ladders anymore
he’d fallen off
once or twice
the first time
he visited and left early
didn’t like to drive
at night anymore
hard to see
the first time
I saw my father
with a cane
a walking stick
he called it
these were all
the first times
I saw my old man
as an old man
