Call me Rob Roy

   Or Banksworth 

The fruit of my fathers loins

   A product of schooling in two different states

   Once upon a time

   (Both have changed)

   The Oyster River Road Elementary School

in dang ole shire

   Nay not a hobbit shire

But a pseudo British New Hamp-Shire

that was then

   And then three thousand miles to the west!

    traversed with a mother and two older sisters

    inna red squareback

    We watched a man walk on the moon

    In someone's basement

    It took fucking forever 

Stayed in college dorm room that summer

found a Molotov cocktail

in the bushes whilst searching for a lost baseball

found a twenty dollar bill and various coins

In the hallway 

Probably dropped by a drunk summer school

rich kid forced to study

   Then to a town in the dry hills

Where the Govt had a Radiation Lab

  Formerly a Naval Airbase

A half block from the house we rented

from the Newkirks who were in Germany

Why? Who the fuck knows?

Half a block to 4th grade school

Almond Avenue Elementary 

   giant field with Almond trees

here and there

I cried

   I wasn't ready

  I didn't want to go!