Cecilia

Shrooms were good 

hash too

I thought I was a sage on the Atlantic City boardwalk

at the age of 16

but then

but then I went and got older

I went and had a daughter

and one day I held her hand

as I always do

when we cross the street

and when we got to the other side

I loosened 

as I always do

when we get to the other side

but on this particular day

she kept holding mine

that small and clammy little hand

I was no wise man

I was a dad

 

and when the other dads ask me 

if I'll show the first guy she brings home

my gun collection 

and laugh

I laugh too 

cus they don't know

I'm going to make you the gun collection

Cecilia

I'm gonna make you the flower

that grows

when they want plastic grass

 

cus there's beauty in that love

that violence

that little clammy hand

wrapped around my knife callous 

as we get ourselves a crepe

and some Pokemon cards

and maybe play Dragons at the park

© 2024 Lee Kitzis