And that’s what it was all about. And his teacher gave him an A and asked him to write more clearly.
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because of its new paint.
And the kids told him that Father Tracy smoked cigars. And left butts on the pews.
And sometimes they would burn holes. That was the year his sister got glasses with thick lenses and black frames.
And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus.
And the kids told him why his mother and father kissed a lot.
And his father never tucked him in bed at night. And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.
Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem, and he called it “Innocence: A Question” because that was the question about his girl.
And that’s what it was all about. And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look.
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her.
That was the year that Father Tracy died, and he forgot how the end of the Apostle’s Creed went.
And he caught his sister making out on the back porch. And his mother and father never kissed or even talked.
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