Monday, November 27, 2006
Finding The Guru (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")
I've been wearing this mood ring
wondering about my emotions
and about how out of control I am
with myself.
my mother-in-law left this morning for Benson
after several arguments
and misunderstandings
forever to be left to the objective observers
to decide who was right
and who was wrong.
here's the scenario: I'm a drunk
and my mother-in-law is an imaginative OCD
and my wife feels trapped in this small 1400 square foot
apartment.
somehow we are raising three
children.
yesterday I was at the Double Tree hotel
(really a corporate hurrah hurrah)
and I ended up at the lobby gift shop.
there was this guy there named
J.
and we started talking about my problems at home
and he told me
that I should express to my wife and my mother-in-law
what kind of man I really am.
thinking of lions in Africa
I nodded to him
and left the gift shop.
when I went home that night
the tension swam in pools of wine
and sharp tongues.
now my mother-in-law is home
and I am too.
but as I am sitting here
wondering about gurus and chance encounters
I am also wondering about
what it really takes to come to terms with an angry mother-in-law
and what I will have to do
to make this family
work.
wondering about my emotions
and about how out of control I am
with myself.
my mother-in-law left this morning for Benson
after several arguments
and misunderstandings
forever to be left to the objective observers
to decide who was right
and who was wrong.
here's the scenario: I'm a drunk
and my mother-in-law is an imaginative OCD
and my wife feels trapped in this small 1400 square foot
apartment.
somehow we are raising three
children.
yesterday I was at the Double Tree hotel
(really a corporate hurrah hurrah)
and I ended up at the lobby gift shop.
there was this guy there named
J.
and we started talking about my problems at home
and he told me
that I should express to my wife and my mother-in-law
what kind of man I really am.
thinking of lions in Africa
I nodded to him
and left the gift shop.
when I went home that night
the tension swam in pools of wine
and sharp tongues.
now my mother-in-law is home
and I am too.
but as I am sitting here
wondering about gurus and chance encounters
I am also wondering about
what it really takes to come to terms with an angry mother-in-law
and what I will have to do
to make this family
work.
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