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I told my wife about the incident at
our son's school today when a new
girl in his class asked me if I was
William's grandfather

- If it had been someone else
maybe they would have taken it
really badly but for me it was OK,
I am cool, I said

- But you're not THAT cool about it
are you? my wife said, rubbing it
in.

And later when I shaved off my three
weeks old grey beard I thought that
maybe she was right.

Maybe.






Published in The James River Poetry Review, December 2003


 
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