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I Still Have a Pony

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My grandfather had a special rocking chair built that would lean forward rather than backwards so he could fake interest in any conversation
When I was little, one Christmas, he gave me a box of broken glass. He gave my brother a box of Band-Aids. Then he said, "Now you two share."
One time, he said, "Steven, how old are you?" I said, "I'm five." He said, "When I was your age, I was six."
Then he cackled madly and threw a spoon against the window
He was an odd man
He once carved a turkey out of a chicken
His will was an I.O.U
He told me, "Sometimes, when you lose, you really win, like if you were playing musical electric chairs."
One time, I told him a dream I had and I said, "What do you think that means?" And he said, "It means you were sleeping."
I remember when he died, I was a little boy and I went to the wake with my aunt and I was kneeling down at the casket and I was looking at him inside the casket and I started thinking about my flashlight. I started thinking about the batteries inside my flashlight. Then I said to my aunt, "Maybe he's not dead. Maybe he's just in the wrong way."
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So I got off the plane and I forgot to undo my seatbelt and I'm pulling the plane through the terminal
And the wings are knocking people over. And I said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't notice."
Then I almost broke both my arms trying to hold open a revolving door for someone
Then I tried to hang myself with bungee cord. I kept almost dying
I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start
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Steven Wright

Steven Wright

About “My Grandfather” by Steven Wright

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"My Grandfather" appears on "I Still Have a Pony".

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