Thank you for the blue jeans

When I was twelve My mother decided It was time to get Serious about teaching Her children

‘You’re getting older’ she said A trip to Penny’s Brand new pair of jeans Button-up shirt In short order, proper pupil

Morals and good versus evil
 Righteousness, While laudable Pales against goodness

A beginning of A good man In spite of the shadows From which I had come (Shadows that haunt me still)

Sadly, for some of us, it was already too late. But a good heart is a good heart

No matter how stupid the mind That drives it.