Terrible Fathers Day Cards...

Every time I am confronted with a holiday involving cards I find myself the victim of a terrible dillema, shittily written cards that this culture expects you to purchase and present to your loved ones. This is particularly terrible for Mothers and Fathers day. I despise these cards. There is no "I am sorry you are slowly dying of liver disease card." I am opting out. The idea of a hack copy writer presenting something to my family makes me want to vomit, bitch please I am a published poet, and quite frankly your vapid words leave the taste of ash and shit in my mouth.
I could write said card, but I am choosing not to. I am gonna watch a fight with my Dad instead and try to be happy, or at least seem like I am.
There really is not another option.

Poem. (I don't think I posted this before)

Desolate Leaf

The last leaf, desolate on an autumn

Tree, shaken by the wind, all

Things precious to it taken.

No fellow leaves, no sunlight.

I am this leaf, the world is my

Tree, my sunlight is far away. Life is the

Wind that has rendered me thus.

You will not know sorrow until

You have held your sobbing mother

In your arms as she realizes that the person

She loves most in this world will die

Before they can share old age together.

There is a rage so dark, deep, and black

Within me that I cannot fathom it. It is beyond

Comprehension, measurement, estimation.

It cleaves stone from the granite slab of my soul.

It makes me breath smoke.