Birthday Wish for a Deadbeat Dad

Happy Birthday, Motherfucker

You turned 40 yesterday. I can only hope you spent it alone. That the one person you hoped would call, didn’t. I wish for you to feel every second of your 40 years. I hope that none of the children you fathered and abandoned even thought about you for a second. I know mine did not... They don’t even know when your birthday is.

I remember the last birthday I knew you. The night before, you spent our grocery money on crack. And for 3 days, you stayed up, tweaking with anyone that showed up to that awful little apartment. For three days, I hid in the bedroom, 7 months pregnant, scared to death. You were 23.

It’s all been downhill from there, I hope.