This Reason Trumps So You Can Ignore the Rest

You’d like to run off

but objectively compelling reasons

make you stay. Kids, for one thing.

They seem to need a stoop

from which you holler for them

that it’s time for dinner

so get your ass home and wash up.

They seem to need home base.

Otherwise you’d be outta here.

Also, the cat.

Flash 55 for Real Toads, in memory of the G-Man, Galen Haynes.