She said, “You only get one childhood.”
He said, ” That may be true however some folks extend that into an entire lifetime.”
She said, ” You’re missing my point. I’m not talking about childish, emotionally sensitive, idealistic motherfuckers who don’t grow up… I’m talking about childish, emotionally sensitive idealists who don’t let their children have a proper childhood because they can’t get their heads out of their own arses. ”
He smiled, ” We are on the same page.”
Dennis Mantin
If you knew me back then… It might be hard to comprehend that I could be someone’s meal ticket.
Life is strange that way… Dylan talked about how, he that was last would be first and he that was first would be last and here we are.
To be thought of as someone’s pawn has such elements of being shortsighted with terrible planning that the humor can’t be lost.
Ah the plans of mice and women.
Dennis Mantin
They think every idea they have is somewhere between Genius and Great!
Normally I wouldn’t care, but when one of these deep thinkers arrived at my 7 years old daughter’s birthday party and told her to put her jacket on and that she was leaving with him to buy anything she wanted… I had the audacity to say no.
” She might want to hang out with her little friends, some of whom she doesn’t see every day… ”
As soon as I turned my back he took her shopping.
I pick my battles and said nothing, but when I can’t trust adults to not undermine my wishes around my children… never again will you get the chance mofu!
Dennis Mantin
Reading Writing Arithmetic…
Of which there’s only 1 R…
Perhaps the second R is repetition.
Perhaps the third R is remember.
A tried and true method for Learning that seems to be getting lost in the age of computers.
Writing, repeating, engraving, reading, words, numbers.
The art of writing or engraving words with a pen on paper and memory retention are directly linked.
Dennis Mantin
The battle for nasal passages is on… Memories of my childhood are awakened.
One snot drenched cold followed by another and then again…
The seasons of discontent are held at bay now with Nyquil, Otrivan and drugs snot available when I walked miles to school in snow drifts to tall to imagine…
Dennis Mantin
1988 Don’t talk to strangers.
1998 Don’t get into a car with strangers.
2018 Call Uber.
I never learned to determine the difference between the looks, that say, l love you, I’m desperate for attention; or I’m bored and you’ll do until something better comes along.
I understand myself better now and don’t strive for anything beyond friendship.
Sex is nothing but a business transaction, that’s paid now or later.
4 days of rain… November pain.
I under heated roof.
Yards from homeless soggy wet.
The perspectives are not lost.
I have been there…
Dennis Mantin
The air changed in a snap.
From warm as breath to icey frost.
Shoulders sag, hunkering down.
Wearing their powerlessness like goose down and wool…
It’s here where the madness comes with the mittens.
Imaginary drifts blocking their paths in darkening skies and the slush slush slushing sounds of frozen freezing snow.
Accept, Breathe, Listen.
See the beauty in this.
Step in the moment.
One foot in front of the other. No one gets out alive… The journey is here!
Dennis Mantin
The Principal of my daughter’s new school asked, ” Do you pick up your daughter for lunch all the time?”
” Only when I can. I’m working nights … so I am able to this week.”
She reiterated her attitude of contempt. ” That seems unusual! ”
Really? Doesn’t it seem ridiculous and strangely sad, that a father taking his daughter to lunch is deemed unusual?
Dennis Mantin
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