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YOU’LL UNDERSTAND

Richard Fein

And then he smiled, picked me up and said,
“When you’re old enough, you’ll understand.”
Finally when I reached eight,
he sternly talked down to me,
like a preacher from his pulpit,
“When you’re old enough, you’ll understand.”
Lo! I grew twice that age.
And while slamming my bedroom door, he screamed,
“When you’re old, when you’re old,
enough ! enough! enough!”
Then his voice lowered
and through the slammed-shut door
I heard him whisper “you’ll understand.”
Now my impatient child fidgets.
I smile, pick him up,
and mumble heavenward to my dad
(mumble so my child can’t comprehend)
“so tell me already, father,
what am I supposed to understand?”

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