I’m OK
with feeling
down today
I woke up
on the wrong side
of my head
with a lump
in my throat
and a limp in my leg
tender is the nightmare
said my father
who never slept
standing up
like a stumbling block
when my father was a kid
a tomboy who chased
him on the playground
said in his mother’s voice:
“the best part of you
is still
running down
your old man’s leg”
or maybe the best
part of me to honor
his memory made
this hole story up