She called me Daddy… 5/23/2009

Where do you fit in?
In all the angles of my life, all the
Moments of  happiness, the hours of strife,
where do you fit in?

You said it was just fantasy, you said
Don’t believe it for a minute. It's not real.
Nothing else is real, only "Momma" and
the men of Smiley Ingram.

Bevan called me daddy, from the mouth of a child.
She knows I am real, she knows I am not
sponge bob square pants, she knows
what you feel and who I would be:
Her daddy!

You can pick her up and you can hug her,
but she knows if you really love her mommy,
because she knows how true love feels,
and it ain’t just being there to watch over you,
it ain’t feeling like you own somebody,
...that ain’t love,

Squeeze her, kiss her, hug her,
...she knows it ain’t really loving her,
'til you know she is her mother’s baby with every smile she makes
'til you see her mother within her with every step she takes
‘til you want her to be in your pot at the rainbow’s end,
'til you see yourself beside her on her wedding day.

So I don’t fit in, nor do I deserve to.
I don’t breath heavy down your needs nor with expletives
Drown you moods, I don’t measure your life out in
What you’ve done for me, or what I’ve done for you...

You’re a curve thrown too late in the count of my days,
yet I played young for you or was it
Incipient senility to think you wanted me?

I can love and give until I am empty
and no one, not even you, counts my nights
alone in sadness, alone in my sadness.

I cover myself in defecation,
my crowning moment of self-infatuation.
I am loved by it and and I eat it all,
there is no other meal set for my table,
because you said nothing was real.

Not her, not the baby, nor the boy,
none of yours may I call my own...
...all of them were made of other lover’s dreams,
conceived in idle desperation to make you feel anything.

Still, at least these other lover's fantasies have limbs,
they have bodies and hearts and brains,
They have fleshed out penis-dream faces,
they thrive as a result of your pain and love
and they stay ever close to you.

Your lover's sex dreams will live forever
even as my sex dreams are still-born,
our imagined fetus that died before its conception.
You will have no child of mine,
It was all a lie you called a fantasy.

In the end, comfort comes twice,
I dream, I dream
You once loved me
and I once heard Bevan
Call me Daddy.

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