3's

Three

I don’t remember much except for E.T.

possibly going to see it twice

I don’t remember who else was there

But I remember it was happy
          and safe

So I suspect the usuals:

Mom, Dad, sisters

Thirteen

I welcomed it with Shea, Sean, and Greg

it was therefore awesome

It was an epic sleepover

My first foray with MST 3000 thanks to the brothers Kersh

The rest of it saw my first foray with Okla-by-god-homa

and like most forced removals to that mysterious place

it was therefore rather difficult

I am grateful I have come to peace with it

and have another place to call home

Twenty-three

Well that was tricky

She was there that night

Adversarial and begrudgingly affectionate

as was our pattern

But she was there

And she’d clearly gone to some great lengths to get there

Can’t forget that

And then she left that year

That necessarily sucked

As in, it had to, and I’m fortunate to realize that now

And there was that unfortunate divorce for my sister

that sucked for a while

And my church community dropped the ball on my youth group

that sucks to this day

and it always will

Thirty-three

We’ll see

I have every reason to live