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Blue Crack Addict
for my eight birthday
I got a train set
my father helped assemble
my job was to hand him
pieces of track and re-light
the cigarettes that went out
in his mouth. halfway
through, I asked him
where babies come from.
he told me eight years
ago today I showed up
on the front stoop
in a cardboard box, how
he spent the whole afternoon
putting me together,
just like this train set,
that I was probably lucky
the box arrived on a Saturday
then he pulled out
his wallet and
took out a receipt
from Kmart and said,
son this is your
birth certificate
I got a train set
my father helped assemble
my job was to hand him
pieces of track and re-light
the cigarettes that went out
in his mouth. halfway
through, I asked him
where babies come from.
he told me eight years
ago today I showed up
on the front stoop
in a cardboard box, how
he spent the whole afternoon
putting me together,
just like this train set,
that I was probably lucky
the box arrived on a Saturday
then he pulled out
his wallet and
took out a receipt
from Kmart and said,
son this is your
birth certificate
