When Dad Lost Use of His Armsby Scott LaMascus He wrote his jokes with nimble fingertips, keeping them pithy, all the better to surprise.  Even the flies think I’m already dead, he quipped.  We laughed as his eyes twinkled out from silence,   but I couldn’t tell what also lurked behind them, while I chased pests away with useless clown hands. What backbone and fierce humor Dad wielded as the fly circled and he eyed it like a Sphinx. Scott LaMascus is a writer in Oklahoma City whose first chapbook, The Edited Tongue (Bottlecap 2025), provides a medical memoir of his family’s experience with ALS. These lyric and varied poems arc from … Continue reading →