February Love | Episode 24

This Damned Crap is Harder than Therapy!

How answering innocuous-seeming questions can kick one’s ass.

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I was asked,
When did you feel most loved?

My first thought was the cowboy.
How could it not be?

Our love was magnetic,
Soul to soul,
Tending each other’s wounds
So gently.
Finally seen, and seeing.

And then I thought,
It should be my mom, right?

My mother truly loved me,
But I distrusted her,
Switch marks my proof of
The southern belle,
Sugar sweet,
And stone hard at saving face.

Then I realized, surprisingly
I felt most loved by my dad.

My alcoholic,
Fifties ad man workaholic,
Beer and a shot times 10 dad.
Driving home, kids in the back,
100% plastered, joke-telling,
Belligerent, roughhousing,
out-sized dad.