Dad Fiction Poems

When I was a child, some aliens abducted my dad.
They experimented on him and they drove him mad.
They returned my dad and their experiment changed...

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His name was Carson Wetherstrum,
and his childhood wasn’t grand,
his mother was plain trailer trash,
his father a confidence man.

He never knew his dad that much,
and only...

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In these words, Ill splurge; the urge to get back at you. 
Having the moment, you left me you gave me some solitude. 
But etched...

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...It was no life she’d imagined,
but she had no other real choice,
and she did grow to care for him,
gave him ten little girls and boys.

Decades...

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...It took several weeks, but he quickly found
a strange chemical to the water bound,
clearly synthetic, so he went online,
was astonished by what he didn’t find.

There...

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The endless fight seemed to come to an end,
the toxic nature beaten out of men
by lessons taught, and pressure from above,
the masculine had surrendered to...

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...A flush of green-yellow liquid poured out
and disappeared into a large floor drain,
a fetal figure was slumped in the chamber,
and to Tom he couldn’t seem...

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 I woke to a tune playing in my head
that was Tim, my mom timed him to wake me.
Tim's a telepathic, implant, module
and till I...

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More rain.
The pavement is dark with wet and I’m inside
Reading by cloudy light.
Eyes straining. 
Orson Scott Card makes my head ache
As much as he makes...

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“You meddling mechanical moron,
you’ve ruined everything,
the thingamabob is running amok,
can’t you hear the alarm bells ring?
You clinking, clanking cretin,
you demented digital dunce,
you never do what...

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He stands and scans the sky; 
he searches for a light,
as on that distant night.
"I didn't tell a lie -
I'm not that kind of guy,"
he...

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I'm going to stop something that caused a great deal of pain.
I'm going to travel back and stop my son from taking cocaine.
He died from...

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A tribute to Ray Bradbury's The Veldt


Spoiled
by Carson Eelman


The nursery is a curious place
a place where dreams came true
inside lied an African Veldt.
In there the...

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