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Coe Review • Issue 22 Celine’s Mother’s Day Matt Osing Someone’s mom... pissed herself... an island in the hall... two wheels, and two feet... dead center... a puddle of pee... again. So now I gotta get a mop... the wax on the linoleum... stripped...again...the janitor groans... the sight of the dull spot... my name... the duty roster... again...it’s his morning... not this nursing home... anyone else’s Mom... for that matter...again... what I’m thinking about.... 77
Sunday Barbecue James Nulick Coe Review • Issue 22 At the age of 3 (19 years ago), I watched my father catch fire as he was priming the carb on his ‘57 Chevy pick-up truck. My Uncle Lloyd was cranking the engine over while daddy primed it with a 4oz. brake fluid can full of gasoline. The carb backfired, my dad jumped, and fuel spattered his chest, arms, neck and upper torso. He was aflame within seconds. Pops threw the can down and fell on the lawn, trying to extinguish he flames with the wet milky crunch of green grass. Didn’t work. Dick Van Dyke is a liar. Pops ran around the yard, screaming insanely, air smothering him out, a lit flare burning inside his lungs. Oxygen was his only enemy, he couldn’t breathe it in or expel it out. His throat was seizing up fast. Oxygen also fed off of him, eating him up like fresh Styrofoam as his eyes happened upon the hidden greenness of the garden hose. About this time, Ma came out of the house, the Sunday tv now having to go unwatched, performing for the sake of saving face. Ma screeched and whipped me up into her arms, I remember the scent in the air, white bread burning at mach 3, eyebrows singed by the campfire. Dad was attempting to force the spigot free now, but he had tightened it just this morning to keep me from turning it on to play in the water, summer sun beckoning brown sugar skin. Too bad! Now it was useless, for daddy’s fingers were sizzling away like frying bacon. I heard him shout (nothing more than a whisper), “I want to die!” Then he lay down on the grass to die, underneath the cool shade of our carob tree. Uncle Lloyd slipped out of the truck (not more 78
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