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February 12 - February 13, 2024
“My fallen angel.” “My guardian monster,”
My grandfather had done the service and it was beautiful in the way that forgiveness is beautiful because I knew my family would never really understand my love for Zeus and his world but it felt right that they should pass me over to him, to someone who always had and always would understand me better.
I wasn’t over Mute’s death and I knew I never would be. He’d been in my life only half a year but he’d given me what only one other person ever had, unconditional love right from the start.
He’d been such a quiet man that I’d learned to listen harder to the silence and find treasures of sound in it.
Can’t wait to meet ya, kids. Can’t wait to hold you in my arms and see what gifts my Lou’s given ya, which ones you’ve taken from me and all the ways you’re just straight up, uniquely yourselves. Never written a love letter to my kids ’fore but I got no shame in tellin’ ya this won’t be the last one I write to you, not when I can feel all the love I got for you already burin’ up a hole in my chest just blazin’ to get out. Just gotta say one more thing right outta the gate here, my first lesson to ya both as your father. You treat your Mama like gold, ya hear? That woman has been to hell and
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You know what you gotta do, my babies? You gotta let her love ya and then you’ve gotta move the moon to make sure she knows you love ’er too. Trust me, she’ll deserve that from ya and you’ll wanna give it. I’ll teach you how to take care of ’er, don’t you worry, but it’s the first lesson I wanted to give you two. Your Mama is
an angel, and somehow, some fuckin’ way, she chose a monster as her soulmate, and together we created you. It’s her you got to thank for that magic. Lord fuckin’ knows, I’ll spend the rest of my days thankin’ her too, for the gift of givin’ a man li...
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