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Reciprocation

Poetry by ​​Michael Eaton
You tell me you wish
to pay me back
for those dinners out
when you were in school
surviving on macaroni and cheese.
 
You offer me a trip to Paris
as reimbursement for the down 
payment on the used car
that burst its radiator
as you drove off the lot.
 
But all I really want
is for you to inspect the bruises
I develop in the nursing home
and make sure they aren’t suspicious,
to come and read to me so I hear something
other than my ghosts from the past,
to make sure they change both
the sheets and my diapers.
 
I only ask that you help
keep the flies from my eyes.

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Michael Eaton

Before completing school, decided to go to San Francisco State University. Moved there, and became a hippie living in a commune until graduation with a Masters in Creative Writing. Then came back to Austin and became partners in a stained-glass studio, a business in which my eldest son is still involved in Houston.
 
Recently have just completed conducting two poetry classes in assisted living centers for the elderly in Austin and Wimberley.
 
I write poetry to stay sane in an insane world and currently have 28 published poems.
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