Yes lad, of course you can express yourself through
the wit and beauty
of the spoken word.
I trust you,
and value you,
and want you to succeed.
Can I, your humble old Dad, help you?
Fill your pen with ink?
Fetch paper for the typewriter?
Find you a dictionary?
And no,
no of course
I wouldn’t tell you to stop.
We might be starving here,
sonny boy,
and desperate for
money and for
help,
but we need to hear what you have to say.
Amended 20 April 2001, 11 January 2003