Chicagoetry: My Dad Was A Bong-Head In College

MY DAD WAS A BONG-HEAD IN COLLEGE

"Live Rust." That
was the giveaway:

I found his records
In the barn,

And I began to understand more deeply
My mother's

Sense of
Humor.

It all came to me
In a flash:

Dad
Was a bong-head

In
College.

I actually looked
For seeds

And shake
In the spine.

I'd previously taken
My mother's surprising, almost shocking, if slightly muted,

Support for legalizing
ALL drugs and letting a Federal Bureaucracy do its magic and run the whole thing into

The
Ground, once and for all.

Wow! A lot of that
Was pure bullshit!

Just to fuck
With Dad!

Wow!
Awesome.

Mother! What a clue
She had!

Very sophisticated, I'm thinking
Now. Well: for a

Girl.

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J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood's poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is a collection-in-progress.