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Thanks Geoff! Here's my latest....still trying to 'process' this experience:
Surreal Christmas
Son #2 is an Alaska State Trooper
who works the swing shift so I wait ‘til late
on Christmas day to give him a call.
I’ve saved the presents
thinking I’d do a live unwrapping
when we talked on that day.
I get no answer when I call
but leave a message on his cell
for him to call when he can.
Within the hour I get his call
we exchange greetings
of the day
He thanks me for my presents
says he’d opened them early
before Christmas Dinner with friends
but then got called in early
to work an accident
on the Sterling Highway.
So he couldn’t answer
my earlier call and I ask
if I should call back
Oh no he says the time is good
he’s just waiting with a dead guy
for the ambulance to arrive.
I’m taken aback,
this is no time
to be opening Christmas presents
He assures me it's fine
so I open presents and thank my son
with a dead guy by the road.
Kenny A. Chaffin – 12/26/2013
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