Grace Paley




My Father at 85

My father said
		how will they get out of it
		they’re sorry they got in


My father says
		how will they get out
		Nixon    Johnson    the whole bunch
		they don’t know how

Goddamn it he says
		I’d give anything to see it
		they went in over their heads

He says
		greed    greed    time
		nothing is happening fast enough