I’m here, now, if you want to put a bug in your dad’s ear about pouring coffee. in the war the thing I felt crawling up his spine became his spine. in the war I called it abandoned and he said not while we’re in it. he scratched the worst looking dog into the side of it so we’d know it was a church. I shared more than once how I’d be stupid as that dog to guard a dogfight and less than once how jesus would’ve been a suicide bomber had the crowd been clueless. we cried about women and children and by our crying they were found.