Tuesday, May 29, 2018

day FOUR HUNDRED and NINETY FIVE



MY GRANDDAUGHTER

her daddy never finished high school
not for lack of trying
that second year of tenth grade plenty

her mother, my daughter
I’m grandpa, maternal grandfather
my daughter, her mother
she tried to see something in him

they never married and they never argued much
after a few years they just seemed to give up

dad comes around once in awhile
big events he wants to share, birthdays, the circus

my granddaughter
yesterday she ran into the house
eight years-old, all excited
Daddy took her to the rally at the Colosseum
she got to shake the President’s hand!

--Chuck Joy

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