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Bigfoot (Is a Friend of my In​-​laws)

from American Doggerel vol. 1 by A.M. Rodriguez

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Bigfoot (He’s a Friend of my In-laws)

Bigfoot is a friend of my in-laws
They have him over for whiskey and tea
He likes bourbon the best and politely requests
You keep your sugar water in Tennessee

He built a nest on their couch for a whole month
While fleeing his second divorce
She’d left with the cubs, the dog and the drugs,
Tom said, “I think it’s time you get clean.”

Tom never took much to me
But his wife Linda loves me like a son
Her daughter’s a vision--a bright, bold incision
of light in the dark of my life

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Linda found a friend in Bigfoot
He’d cook her dinners when Tom was away
And though there’s been no admissions, there were many’s suspicions
Of why Linda’s newborn looked that way

All covered in fur, the young baby
Yawned and stifled a cry
My wife’s new half-sister, was already a darling critter
And Tom loved her the same anyway

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My wife grew up knowing his younger sister--
They never mention her on the shows--
Because she died quite young from cancer in her bones
My wife’s head was shaved at her funeral

The hairless young thing in the box
--my wife knew that it was not her friend
And it was the first time she’d cried over someone who’d died
Since her father when she was ten

“Tom did the best that he could,” she says,
When pressed about her childhood
“He told cornball jokes, he was a decent step-dad,
“And I’m glad for all the times we have left.”

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We got the news this morning
He slept in forever last night
He went gentle--no rage, then no light
So tomorrow we’ll throw him a beautiful goodbye

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from American Doggerel vol. 1, released May 24, 2023

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A.M. Rodriguez Athens, Georgia

Rodriguez is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and audio engineer currently based out of Athens,
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