Doesn't stumble for me -- implication I get is that "worthlessness" is the father's opinion.
Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: At last, the poem to yank me out of my lurking!
A focused narrative that gives this not-at-all-Jewish person
a strong idea of what it might feel like.
The title may be a bit, er, throwaway, but it works as a grab for attention.
The last stanza attains the personal-yet-universal magic
we're all looking for:
> my father at a rest I never saw in his lifetime,
> relaxed into the arms of what he'd courted
> from the first day he knew he could court anything.
> It eluded him in the battle already ended in France,
> it fled him in the fur markets, it laughed at him in two marriages,
> it mocked him through the worthlessness of the child
> (or is that children?) he fathered ...
but when you strike at yourself like that, the poem stumbles.
Janet
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