My Hero
By Andy Hobin
There is nothing more nobly pathetic
Than a single father
At McDonalds
With his kids.
The father, not often, but certainly at least once,
Thinks about high school.
His conquests.
His summers on the road.
His legends.
His women.
His wife.
And now his sons, sitting across the table
With their toys and what's left of their fries.
But the father doesn't care.
The kids are
At McDonalds
With their old dad.
Happy.
They don't know any better.
Thank Christ for it.
About the author:
Andy Hobin currently lives and works in Manhattan for the BBC. His writing has appeared in the St. Louis Riverfront Times, McSweeneys.net, The Citizen-Journal and Communicating Literature. He misses his long-distance girlfriend, Kathleen, every day, and is taking his sweet time adapting a book which he does not own the rights to into a screenplay.
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