I
begin tucking him into bed and he tells me,
"Daddy check for monsters under my bed."
I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another
him,
under the bed, staring back at me quivering and
whispering,
I was standing at a bus stop with a
couple other people, near a person dressed up in bird
costume.
One of the people standing next to me asked the guy in the bird
costume jokingly: "How much do you hate that job? Must be awful standing
out in the sun all day." And the guy in the bird costume laughed and
said, "I'll do anything to make sure my kids don't go
to sleep hungry tonight."