I heard that nicotine stays in your vagina mucous for 5 years
(but I won't be googling that)
so I'll be 20 days from 34 years old, nicotine sliding away inside
a little younger than my mother when I came out of her
she's never smoked in her life
I know when & where I was conceived,
it was in my parents' bedroom
(they didn't get that waterbed until the nineties)
1011 east state street, boise idaho
a gothic style victorian style mansion style house built in 1904
it was painted a color called Bog Oak
a very muddy almost-black darkgreen
with a Chinese Red door
chinese lanterns
ivy chimney
it was a hot night
august 20, 1983, after the western idaho fair
riding the big wheel
checking out the livestock
prize bulls
sad-eyed soft noggind cows
and I wonder if my parents ate pronto pups
or did they even have pronto pups in the eighties?
When pronto pups came on the scene in the eighties.
When my dad won a stuffed animal at the shooting range in the eighties.
When my parents drank lagers at the fair and came home and fucked in the eighties.
When my parents met, it was the seventies
they were married five years before I was born, they were married in this church
which clearly was once
a greek orthodox church
but now it is a methodist church. I always wondered why they did that, my parents,
not a church switching denominations,
because they weren't holy people
My mom wore a little diamondy seventies star pendant
and her mother Velma's dress from the forties
and she looked lovely in all the pics.
I was baptized, too
for my grandparents, I think they wanted me in heaven eventually
so, thanks
