Hijo de puta

We are a generation without our fathers.

We've got our mothers and sisters,
and sometimes; our brothers.

That is, if they didn't run off to Montana to become addicted to meth or coke, shoot guns and get chased by the nazi skinheads that run rampant in that part of the country.

or if they didn't join the navy, army, air force or marine corps.


I have a friend whose dad is an engineer;


gone all the time.

I have a friend whose dad is a borderline drunk;

gonzo! emotionally, if not physically.


and I have my dad, who is, quite frankly a loser. He doesn't even get a capital "L" as far as I'm concerned, because he isn't a special "Loser", he's just a normal one.



It's like in the book of Genesis, where God says that the consequence of Eve's disobedience is that her pain in childbirth will increase, and the consequence for Adam is that he has to work in the fields all day long and toil, and not really gain anything in the end;

Figures...

Mothers will always be closer to their children then the father because the mother had the baby. She produced his little baby hands through the pain of her labour, while the father stood idly by and cut the umbilical cord.

Fathers will always be distant and unreachable because they have to work in the field all the hours of the day, which is really just an old-age way of saying that they have to put bacon on the table, and provide for the family. They don't just have to work; they have to toil.

and so when they come home they are tired and just want to eat and then go to bed.

and so is the pattern of the natural world.


We are a Generation without our fathers.

and by "Generation", I don't mean like people that were born in the late 80's and maybe early nineties.


It just means Everyone.


since the start of time;



until now.








You know it's the sad depressing truth; and don't you forget that it will be the same thing when we become fathers.

















maybe unless we adopt children into our single-parent Mr. Mom type homes.


then, maybe then, do we have a shot.?