Your Father

I'm happy you said hello
You've done a great job of keeping yourself off the internet
Your daughter's great she looks like so much fun
a lot of family resemblances
I've seen her dancing YouTube, et al
so talented smart fun PracticalHippy Brilliant
I was looking for a picture of you actually
[see second sentence]
She's got this picture of [if I'm interpreting this right] its her putting on stuff to prove to you not to throw it out?  I'm probably wrong And I wasn't convinced that that's not YOU in the picture but I can't come up with a plot line for that
Everybody in my family is fine
Your brother I remember was theatre bound and I think that's him I see that has worked on all those films I'm happy for him
I've become a fortune 500 drone since our last hello
Hopefully I'll be retired suddenly any day now They love to do that to people
Have always been a practicing musician
Everybody likes my music but
an awful poet an even worse writer
and unfortunate in collaborating
It's fine
I'm looking forward to the much heralded golden years
I've got a ton of ideas and stuff to do blah blah blah

As there's that saying hello is on the same schedule as the U.S. census
let me ask after your father and mother
and any else you care to share
You can tell him I saw him in my dream recently
Nothing special Just seeing him Unmistakably him You know how dreams are
That's only the second time
The first being 37 years ago I told him He said "It wasn't me." He was right
I figure he's in his mid low eighties
Hope they're well

Best wishes
Bobby



all the while anonymous

I'm still vegetarian
I could have married lots of times. They weren't you.
I broke a lot of women's heart.
I'm single now
Your father was in my dream some months ago
for the second time
The first was 37 years ago
I told him and he said, "it wasn't me"
I have lots of memories of him
he's one of my great men I have known
It doesn't feel right not to ask after him
and your mother
I did get over you
Maybe after 20 years or so
I was lighter
But an occasional dream
One or two a decade
Always the same kind of dream
seeing you
just seeing you