David Tucker, a finalist in Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Late for Work, winner of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, and Days When Nothing Happens, a chapbook. He received a BA from the University of Michigan, as well as a degree in journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto. He lives in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

My Father Quoting Shakespeare Late at Night

by David Tucker

Other fathers may also have lived a work in progress
entitled: “I Blame the World for Everything,”
which began soon after dinner and ended near bedtime.
But how many were also bent on reciting
every line of Shakespeare learned in high school?

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