Could Max have written this?

It was an extraordinary poem, a poem about a family that was extremely polite, as long as everyone stayed upstairs. When they went down to the basement they tried to murder each other.

THE POEM FAMILY BY DONNA SPECTOR 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 21

For two years Max did not open his eyes. Or, if he did, we couldn’t tell. When I first saw him, he was 14, a…