Sunday is Father's Day

TALK MORE NOW
For two hundred dollars an hour
I can get a doctor to tell me
why I talk to my dad more now
than when he was here.



Maybe as I get older and closer to his age
I'm finally seeing things the way he did
or find some kind of comfort in talking
to him from inside my head

Dad always got the tough jobs, you know,
and I, I was the toughest job he ever had.
I spat on people. They teased me.
I bopped them with my sister's baton.
They teased me, and laughed at me.
I bit them on the ass.
They stuffed me in a garbage can.

So it fell to him to be the bearer
of the swift and mighty blow
to bring the little bastard to his senses
or to render him senseless so he
couldn't hurt anyone for a while.

... But these decades later I find
We talk more now
and I have a different view
of him and the years
we spent together.
I know he was winging it
and I was a whirling dervish.

By Anthony Buccino

adapted from TALK MORE NOW, a poem in progress from the SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER collection.

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I Met My Father When He Was A Young Man

More than a decade before I was born my dad wrote letters from the South Pacific to his best friend back in Belleville.

Then, long after dad was dead, and the friend past away, those old letters surfaced in a trunk in an attic and that's where I met my father when he was young man.

Already in his 20s, he was one of the older guys on that troop ship chugging through the Panama Canal.

"I always wondered how these things worked," he wrote.

And, of course, he teased his friend at home that even if he told him where he was stationed, his friend couldn't find it on a map!

In August 1942, he was working the artillery supporting the Marines at Guadalcanal. That was when he confided in his friend that he might be home for Christmas.

Little did he or any of the other GIs know it, but it would be years before he got home.

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COSTCO FATHER'S DAY: Quiken WillMaker Plus

It seemed a bit incongruous to me, but then what is Father's Day about besides getting the old man something he wouldn't spend his own money on.

Why do you think so many ties are given on Father's Day. It's like a fruitcake.

So here is the ecatalog from Costco.com and they are offering Free Shipping on the Quicken® WillMaker Plus 2007 Software by Nolo for $34.99 Item # 195411.

Gift card - saying remember me when you fill this out, Dad - sold separately.


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