Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Family Matters

What do you say to Ishmael,

The spurned child, the second best

Sorry, lad, but your mom was just

A handmaiden, a tweeny like,

And Sarah was godawful pissed?


Father a race, why don't you? That

Would show him, Father of his kind.

They made it to Vienna, but

It's couches there, not ottomans.

One each. Don't pus. And Isaac, he


Got to be a major moral bit:

The proof of how you love someone

Is where you'll put the knife when told.

That ram was someone's Ishmael,

A woolly spot of sacrifice.


How many times did Isaac ask

His dad to have a catch, you think?

When cards arrived for Ishmael

Birthday, Christmas, 4th of July—

Mom tore them up and threw them out.

Ishmael gathered up the bits.


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