This presentation explores how Dementia Blog (2008), Susan Schultz’s book of prose poems about her mother’s experience with Alzheimer’s, destabilizes the boundaries between subject and object and practices rhetorical listening. These strategies have the potential to shift the fields of Disability Studies and Poetics towards an expanded view of care, one which emphasizes collaboration between able-bodied people and people with Alzheimer's, as well as other types of neurodiversity. Alzheimer’s renders individuals unable to speak for themselves in a conventionally “coherent” manner. This has driven many writers to attempt to document and interpret their parent's Alzheimer’s despite the difficult ethical questions about appropriation that are inevitably raised during this process. As Gould argues, experimental poetry is uniquely equipped to intervene in these questions.