by Marc Isaac Potter … My wife, Harrison, and I were elated that our 5 year old would share what she calls her Disney stories with us. We told her not to call them Disney stories because the Disney Corporation would sue us for using their name So that was forbidden and we started calling it her dream life which is something that my therapist suggested. What can I say? The window shades are whispering to me that I need to tell you about my family which I already wanted to do but I don't know whether to tell you about Harrison first or tell you about our lovely daughter We cannot decide if we are We cannot decide if we're adopting again or not. Surprisingly Juliana our daughter does not want a little brother or sister which is affecting our decision greatly we think that she will change her mind as she gets older and maybe we can adopt but we don't want to adopt if she doesn't want a little brother and sister which is very strange He is a very intelligent girl I wouldn't say she is a genius but very intelligent in her class and she is very precocious I wish I were a writer and if I were a writer I could tell you more about my family that would make sense Harrison and I fell in love as teenagers at a time when being gay or queer or homosexual or whatever work is being used at the time was forbidden we both have stories of being beaten by the football team members both together and alone I should have said this in the beginning but my name is Garrison. It legally is Garrison I had it changed my name was Gary but since Harrison and I have been together well since probably our sophomore year in high school I thought it would be cute for it to be Garrison and Harrison. I'm not a writer Harrison is the writer but he's asked me to write something about our family like some kind of a memoir which I don't think this is some kind of a memoir I think it's just stop . I don't like writing this and the fact is I'm writing it somewhat against my will but Harrison is my wife and if he wants it then I'll do it and by the way yes pronouns are he him which I abhor we don't get along about some things but we love each other my pronouns are they them I know it doesn't make any sense it throws itself against the wall like cow s*** I know The only way I'm going to get through this as if I can talk about things that I care about to which Harrison said was just fine I just feel like I'm doing this because he wants me to do it well hey you know I am hating it because he wants me to do it. Marc Isaac Potter (we/they/them) … is a differently-abled writer living in the SF Bay Area. Marc’s interests include blogging by email and Zen. They have been published in Fiery Scribe Review, Feral A Journal of Poetry and Art, Poetic Sun Poetry, and Provenance Journal. Twitter is @marcisaacpotter.
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