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  • Ward Cleaver Speaks to June
  • Robert E. Wood (bio)

June, I am not the one who named our child “The Beaver.” I am the one who wanted to call him Sputnik.

I am not the one who wanted a white picket fence. I am the one who wanted a Doberman pinscher.

I am not the guy who goes off to a mysterious place called work. I am the guy who heads for Petticoat Junction.

I’m not the kindly patriarch in this vague fictitious suburb. I’m the man who drives off in a Fury.

I’m not an avatar of domestic serenity. I am the future of Tango.

Robert E. Wood

Robert E. Wood’s poetry has recently appeared in Poetry Midwest, Quiddity, Quercus Review, Ouroboros, and Umbrella and is forthcoming in War, Literature, and the Arts; Jabberwock Review; and Blue Unicorn. A chapbook, Gorizia Notebook, has been published by Finishing Line Press.

“As a Baby Boomer who went to school in the Atomic Fifties, I am happy to be working at my desk instead of under it.”

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