| The
whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped
until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand
that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat
time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
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