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[galaxyoda-blog]

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[allieology]

Not Bad Dad, Not Bad

I think you are most yourself when you are swimming; slicing the water with each stroke, the funny way you breathe, your mouth cocked as though you're yawning. You're neither fantastic nor miserable at getting from here to there. You wouldn't win any medals, Dad, but you wouldn't drown. I think how different everything might have been had I judged your loving

like I judge your sidestroke, your butterfly,

your Australian crawl. But I always thought I was drowning in that icy ocean between us, I always thought you were moving too slowly to save me, When you were moving as fast as you can. Jan Heller Levi

--I wanted to give this poem to my Dad because it pretty much sums up my relationship with him [we're most of the time pretty distant when we're one on one] but I realize how hard he's working/sacrificing for me, but I don't want to hurt his feelings. So I will just post it here.