On Parenting (today)

Today was the day. School and all.

And I had this on my blank screen: Good start.

I wasn’t much in the mood to write. Too much thinking.

Sometimes, a friend once told me, it’s best to get into your body and out of your mind. And so it was.

Running, perhaps. From it, for certain.

This blanket of newness, scratchy and odd fitting.

Fuck.

One day you’re a homeschooling dad.

And the next you’re just unemployed.

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