you don't hear from hear from him for
years
turns out he has been living two little blocks away
a strange lawyer calls Sunday morning,
your presence, requested, suggested at the arraignment court,
as soon as possible, to get him
released from overnight lockup on his own recognizance
sure enough, the Judge asks is the father present
and I stand and he sees me and says set him free
into the custody of that old ghost in the last row
a month later
we sit in my car,
at 11:00pm
engine running,
our mobile phones, side by side
charging from the same source,
waiting for his lawyer to call
somewhere in your huge file of poems
entitled but as of yet unwritten is one called,
***the words rational and children are rarely used in a single sentence
together***
oh yeah, Leonard's reminder?
some hallelujahs
come cold and broken
~
5/31/17
500am
May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 5:13 AM UTC
you don't hear from hear from him for
years
turns out he has been living two little blocks away
a strange lawyer calls Sunday morning,
your presence, requested, suggested at the arraignment court,
as soon as possible, to get him
released from overnight lockup on his own recognizance
sure enough, the Judge asks is the father present
and I stand and he sees me and says set him free
into the custody of that old ghost in the last row
a month later
we sit in my car,
at 11:00pm
engine running,
our mobile phones, side by side
charging from the same source,
waiting for his lawyer to call
somewhere in your huge file of poems
entitled but as of yet unwritten is one called,
***the words rational and children are rarely used in a single sentence
together***
oh yeah, Leonard's reminder?
some hallelujahs
come cold and broken
~
5/31/17
500am
notes are always optional, children well...
Request permission to use this poem