August 9, 2010 (I was 65)
If your father is already dead when you are young
you lack the advantage of knowing his fuck-ups
It’s too easy to believe the appraisal of other men
in premature evaluation of his or your own talents
Those with titles are most presumptuous
uncle priest coach teacher fire chief policeman
all so dismissive in their ignorance
and so believable in their imperialism
Youth gives credence to their baseless judgments
Before they earn your disrespect you’ve become adult
It takes that many years
You have moved away from those individuals
but not from the idiot types they represent
In their expressions of authoritative certainty
they never realized the damage they propagated
never faced the critical regard of peer review
Now as an undead father I think I am more sensibly obvious
in my metaphorical expression of hypocrisies and failures
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