Bicuspid Boy from Cassette by Dante DeFelice

Bicuspid Boy where on earth did you go
With your light up shoes of Velcro
Where the watermelons grow
So careful not to swallow a single seed
Sitting Indian style on that summer picnic sheet
With closed eye car rides sleeping in the backseat
Watch the random rhythm flicker of
The sunshine through your eyelids

Time was so simple when you couldn’t read
What the face was saying
Or why the hands were waving around
Sledding down a snowy hill
Or running through the sprinkler with all of my sisters
All this laughter turns to tears
Throughout all the years that you’ve been burning through
Or flipping your finger to
Wisdom teeth are growing in
So Mama wash my denim overalls
And admit my circle has been drawn

• Folk
• Marlboro