My Son From Early To Present
he is a god
given hap
piness in
my life
before
he could
even speak
english he told
me his very
first German
joke and where
he learned German
is beyond
me and i must
say he is in no
way part of my
gene puddle
deep and or from
the shallow end but
enough said for these
now are his words:
guten morgen
......... freeman
telling him there
is no rhyme for
the word orange
his reply, "door hinge"
what's a blind German?
a na zi
don't make me go
Japanese on you
me asking at dinner
why everyone else had
Japanese chopsticks
but i was eating with
Chinese? He replied:
Loser!!!
him meeting his math
teacher for the first time
wearing a t-shirt that read
"Three Out of Two People
Know Nothing About Math"
finding a sword
in a pawn shop
in Charlotte
in a back
corner
with his
star symbol
and hearing him
yell "This is mine" and
i replying,
"Not until
i pay for it"
another time at dinner
him now having taken
German classes
naming all of the
colors and me
not remember
ing that gelb
was yellow
so i asked,
you know
all these
words
yet
you
can't
use
them
in a sent
ence? which
he replied Ich
bin gelb and so
as we laughed my
wife didn't get it at all
knowing he never missed
a day of school in his life
me, walking downstairs
asking him what was up
him telling me i've got
to catch my bus and
me telling him the
time that he already
had missed it and then
him feverishly asking if i
could drive him to school? but i pre
pared him for the thought that
took the backpack off his back and
then telling him you're going back
to bed though he fought it a bit
he did it and went back
to school the next day
he and i
laughing
when we
found out
the politically
correct name for
his up bringing for the way
he was raised him was a "free
...................................range child"
me waking him
guten Morgen
wie geht es Ihnen
sprechen das Deutsch?
and him emphatically re
sponding Nein
i know
he's not
one of
mine in
the bio
logical
sense
but i
as my
wife said
that her and
i were meant
to meet so that
i would meet her
son
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2020
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