I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom lately; she passed away in November, 2010. This is for her. when I was five and life was a song of excitement and innocence the world was full of mystery and I had never felt the pain of hurt or loss of any kind and then one day a playmate pushed me right off the swing you picked me up brushed me off told me not to cry ‘mommy,’ I said, ‘it hurts’ when I was sixteen and in love for the first time to a young Cuban girl I felt like an adult doing adult things dates and kissing and groping and late-night phone calls with the cord stretched and twisted through the house and under my door and then one day she left me for another teenage crush and I felt world-ending anguish burning, hot, consuming as only a teenager can feel them you held me close told me I’d be ok ‘but mom,’ said I, ‘it hurts.’ when I was thirty-five at the end of my marriage holding on to it with desperate and futile hands trying to be a good father to my sons who put me on a pedestal high enough to rival the gods I fought depression […]
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May 16, 2015 