he sighedsaid Canada geese    then laughed hardvery hard

she listened to him  smiled gently

                                    he hadnt laughed like that in a long timeused to laugh like that all the time

   Something funny, huh?

Ohmy yes  Yes  Very funny

                              Veryvery funny  he wiped tears from his eyes

It’s good to hear you laugh like that.

Good good to laugh like that

Are you going to share?

he laughed again  bemused    not as he had laughed

                                                           You up for slapstick not your usual fare

I’d like to share it with you, if you’d let me.

I want to share everything with you

My Dad

He was a card. 

Youll never know

                   Im sorry there were impediments his mother he wouldnt say  she wouldnt

Yes.

     No.  I’ll never know. But I heard him laugh you sound like him.

You think

Yes.  Sound like him . . look like him.

Really You think

I do, yes.

Weel Ill take tha as a compliment

                                      I thought so too for a long time Particularly as Ive grown older For a long time I didnt look much like either my Mom or Dad Funny how sometimes you look at them an wonder Wonder   You look very much like your Dad

she laughed

              We look like our Dads.

he snickered Youre Dad was beautiful

she laughed  gently punched him in the arm  First People are beautiful

Yes  you  are

                Captivatingly beautiful

What was the jokemade you laugh?

                                         Canada geese.

Yes

When my Dad got older we dined out Id make it a point to go to the bathroom with him Hed step up to the urinal unzipping himself hed spit  Clearing the pipes hed say Then relieving himself inevitably he farted An as he did he say excuse me excuse me The farts intermittently woud continue Excuse me excuse me  He wasnt embarrassed He referred to it as a natural process

                                      I didnt   Though usually Id spit hawk a loogie  spit

I didn’t need to know that.

he winked  I want you to know everything

You shit.

No I was preparing to urinate

                                Although you set the table nicely

So this one time my parents visitedlived in Minnesota then He and I entered the restroom  I needed to use the toilet Unusual  I excused myself  You take care of business he told me

I went into the stall I heard him spit heard him unzip his pants

Someone came in

My Dad cut loose with this long sustained gassy fart

Then it was silent

He didnt excuse himself

Then he says

               You hear them Canada geese? Like they was in the room with us.

I laughed from the toiletsounded awfully loud  Acoustics

Guy left without washing his hands

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