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for his Ph.D.</p><p id="a62c">I want to know my mom as she was in high school, feeling the sun so strong in her face she couldn’t see what she was doing.</p><p id="ce42">I miss that day when my parents met, and the summers when my dad was a boy playing baseball on the farm.</p><p id="07c4">I wish I could have known them before my mom’s stomach stretched wide, when she met the cute boy from Minneapolis in a bar and followed him to the city.</p><p id="0bbc">I miss that beautiful world before my grandparents got old.</p><h2 id="6998">Join The Power of Poetry. 💚 Franz Kafka // The Poets

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I’m Homesick for the Time Before I Was Born

A poem

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I wish I could have seen him, my dad in his rock band opening for Prince, playing the bass instead of listening to classical music and studying for his Ph.D.

I want to know my mom as she was in high school, feeling the sun so strong in her face she couldn’t see what she was doing.

I miss that day when my parents met, and the summers when my dad was a boy playing baseball on the farm.

I wish I could have known them before my mom’s stomach stretched wide, when she met the cute boy from Minneapolis in a bar and followed him to the city.

I miss that beautiful world before my grandparents got old.

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