Stupid
thought that I could be
someone’s father
but I
do have it. It’s just
I’m “unfit for service”
how gay
guys come about we
come about like sharks
slowly
and then it’s too late
I’d tell my son about sharks
he’d say
“You can’t really mean
that you for real saw a shark
really
show me a shark then
on this map of Florida
looks like
a shark if he bent
himself over and scratched
his gills.”
I’d tell him I’d touched the gills
before and they didn’t feel right.
“Tonight
a shark exits the sea
a prude he’s done with
all the
naked people coming
into his house”
my son
would laugh at that joke
if I ever had one
he’d have
my sense of humor
and laugh at that joke
and find
things like sharks stupid
though they are not
— Hayden Church is the editor of Maximus Magazine