When you hold out hope/
to save your daughter’s life, you/
still druck die Daumen.
Or
When you hold onto/
hope to save your daughter’s life,
you druck die Daumen.
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Hoping She Signs: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
Sometimes all you can/
do is wait, pray, hope, have faith,/
and do all you can.
Not Couldn’t But Wouldn’t: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku
I wasn’t doing/
anything so I couldn’t/
get her. I wouldn’t.
Written after my daughter’s phone call from a eating disorder treatment center: “What are you doing that you can’t come and get me?!?”
Worst Father Ever: Revolutionary IMproVerse Haiku
She calls, asking me/
to take her from something which/
can save her life. No!
–written 2 hours after my daughter was admitted to a treatment center for eating disorders. She called, crying, begging me to pick her up.