In the Early Years, Right After the War

In the Early Years, Right After the War

In the early years, right after the war,
he'd spend his downtime in the winter
turning the mountain of snow in the front yard
into glaciers with the garden hose.

Apparently his wife was unfazed by this,
but keep in mind that she spent the cold months
trying to come up with potato-based patentable
recipes for what were now being called "working mothers".

At night, they would both pretend that they weren't
half as drunk as they really were, while their son
(not of his seed or her egg), slept in the room closest to the attic
and dreamt exclusively in numbers.