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Acknowlegement 

(Coltrane’s Jazz intersects with fatherhood)

 

My Giant Steps

Tenor  Sax

through classroom maze.

Door blows open.

Teacher shouts

“ Hocus Pocus ! ”

Tattle-tellers respond,

“ Everybody Focus ! ”

Teacher secretly tells fatherless tales to me  

of  little ones starving for Papa affection.

Says “ You are the only Dad who visits”

Index nose picker fingers point

Father-famished eyes gaze wishfully

21st century man-child remix of my me

whispers to table neighbor with Lion King Pride

“That’s my Dad”.

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