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Spare the Rod
My father used to say, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” I think it was some church thing. He used to say that, But he doesn’t say that anymore… Now I am bigger than him, And people talk a lot.
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Lock and Dam No. 7
On a boat close an expansive dam A boy accompanied an Old Man Fishing for hours cold hands Only to have come up few clams The river remained rough Water spray wet brown splash Bubbles in the water...
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Naïve Play (as a boy)
When I was a boy, I sat on a polished smooth cement floor in my father’s four-car garage. Below me were bits of broken thermometer, recently shattered; this ancient device, with Mercury inside. It had...
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chocolate milk
in elementary school i used to violently shake chocolate milk cartons until they were mixed sweet as milk shakes. i learned something important here: if you don’t like what you get, stir things up a...
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free as i freeze (habit and time)
wake up to routine, OK Google, play morning jazz. watch people kiss at the drop off spot. it’s cold, there is ice–messages, go outside… tie shoes and salt the walk. change diapees of all sorts. my son...
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life after life life after this coffee is gone, slipped out of its cup computer screens bleeping, drama queens screaming after a walk in the woods, after silence thoughts of my father pop up like...
View Articlebest thing ever (dadlife)
being a dad is the best thing ever, every day is the set of Home Alone; toys every where and not. laughs like me, cant believe. leftovers make a secular search for god. wondering what people do w/o...
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