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Jon Tobias
Poems
Sep 2012
Pointilist Poem (Portrait of People I know)--Part 3 Parents
I believed in the easter bunny
And Santa
And god
There was chocolate inΒ Β church grass
A gift under a tree
And I pray when I am helpless
And one day you find out the truth
Realize parents are good at keeping secrets from you
Then they do things
Like drink themselves to near-death
Fall apart
And you see they are not superheroes
Thery're human
Makes me understand what it is to be a man
Written by
Jon Tobias
San Diego
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