I didn't

have a heart

or I did

years ago

                 somewhere along the way

it got tossed

             Not a choice really

    just how do you say 

circumcision

I mean circumstances

Imagine waking up w no dick

Well yeah that's that

 for that

    Roses are blue 

    Violets are red

                When you read this

                      You'll fall down dead

Thank Sister Superball 

for that

       and many other things

like "secret sales"

we won't get into that right now 

But it was a big part of my childhood

Hoof in mouth disease was another 

Leaving Cheyenne we were never the same

Dad worked at the Radiation lab

And I think his brain 

began to glow green

Mom didn't know how to take it

and disappeared into a worried elementary school music teacher driving a Datsun 510 filled with boxes

to Portola Valley three days a week

That was only town wealthy enough to hire her 

Or she knew something about the Chief Administrator

Some days the cowboy brethren gathered round 

and pulled Copenhagen from the circled back pockets

of their Lee jeans and put a pinch between cheek 

and gum and spit regularly

They liked to threaten small long hair kids 

with Sheep shears or worse

maybe NAIR on a Saturday night