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Welcome to the Hood Pt.9. The 'S Word': 2 Truths about Sleep

18/9/2016

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Before I was a Dad, the children’s book ‘Go the F*#k to sleep’ seemed offensive at best and ludicrous at worst. Hearing Samuel L Jackson read it on YouTube may have added some extra comedic value, but I probably stuck up my nose and thought it was a ridiculous title written by a terrible parent with a heart of stone. 

Fast forward to a time when these words have left my own lips feeling more like a desperate prayer  than a satirical children’s book, and my perspective has been stretched a little. Even Psalm 137:9 looks different (the one about dashing babies heads on rocks). Ok, so that’s probably one of the most bleak reflections of humanity in all recorded literature, but I’m going to give the dude the benefit of the doubt and assume he had just been woken up for the fourteenth time in half as many hours by a nearby infant. It can make you think (and write) some crazy things.


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This is a piece of writing about the S word.



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Welcome to the Hood Pt.7. Plump-cheeked-brown-eyed-screaming-banshee

9/8/2016

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My son
has enormous brown eyes
smooth, plump cheeks,
and a little button chin
that can melt your heart
like butter in the microwave


When you blow raspberries in his neck
his giggles spill over like a waterfall
and your melted-butter-heart explodes with joy


My son
has fresh eyes for the world
a wide, open heart
and I cannot tell him how much I love him
cannot kiss, cuddle, tickle, snuggle-the-poop out of him anywhere near enough


I have an abundance 
of that weird, want-to-squeeze-and-use-naughty-words-to-describe-the-intensity-of-my-love kind of love
(You know the one right?)


My son
also has
a blood curdling
stomach churning
brain deafening
wild banshee scream
with sharp, prickly edges
that can endure, repeat and build in intensity
for small windows of forever

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