Paolo to Paoleen: Genetics

(Me: at 26, a father; at 47, a grandfather)

1982 -
i slip under white bed-cover
soft bedsheet shaping taut manhood
(with pleased, happy, content lover)
anticipating fatherhood…

2005 -
i bend over pink crib-stroller
soft cribsheet shaping Paoleen good
(with pleased, happy, content father)
relishing thrilled grand-fatherhood.


(between
boyhood and manhood
is frenetic flexibility.

between
manhood and fatherhood
is generic responsibility.

between
fatherhood and grand-fatherhood
is genetic ability.)


- between
generic and genetic
is continual conflict.

- between
dogma-of-Creation and theory-of-Evolution
is continuing-confusion.

(c) Chito L. Aguilar