golly gee — what if I were He … and I could sow what I would reap in the heart and soul of this family — we are family — aren’t we all? did you know — come on — did you? who doesn’t, captain obvious — oh, please grant me the serenity to change…
Slammed: Fatherhood
[author’s note: read this poem aloud for full effect] I was slammed as soon as I walked through the door in the weeds, so deep in the weeds that I couldn’t tell the dandelions from the nasturtiums from heads of romaine I was on the line before I knew it on the line, way down…