he went out every night  1. (perhaps more than once) to take a leak into the yard off the back porchhis peppermint was terribly pleased  midthigh height  2. to look at the stars for his parents who lived in Chicago and couldnt see them for light pollution

they tried once a yearevery two to make a trip to visit him

                                                              he lived remote

his brothers and sisters called it Left Coast boonies boondocks  out Nowhere

                                                                                   but

went out particularly for his Mom

                                    she spoke Polish until she was six in the city she had to go early to attend English school where after school after chores after dinner was served eaten dishes washed dried putaway she sat with her parents to help them improve their broken English

then shed do her homework

                              until she was six she lived on the farm in rural Indiana

used an outhouse

propped open its door for  1. to breath  2. to watch the starswatch for shooting stars and imagine she was piloting a craft that could fly in the air and into outer space

where did he get his expansive imagination

he pushed back against her kiddingly  ansay from his eclectic reading

Who taught you to read?

fucked

       he conceded

every night stars were present he went outside to look at them

for his Dad

            his Dad told him he was conceived on their honeymoon in the backseat of a 1950 Buick convertible that had Dynaflow Transmission a passing gear that allowed him to kick it up a notch by simply jumping on the gas its steel grillwork looked like maniacal sharks teeth set in a frown an HUUNGRRY

                                                                              Like I was, son. he said

his fathers best boyhood friend told him when he was a boy that when his father saw his mother at a company picnic they worked for that his father said

                                      Donny, I’m going to get in her pants even if I have to marry her.

Brother he thought  thas romantic

he told himself those stories and others virtually every night looking at the stars since his circumstances had turned him out

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