My father is a moustache, spent cigarettes, a BMX bike (or was it Huffy) and a three day father-son Disneyland trip that ended after 24 hours. Rex Sims. Male stripper from the 1970s. Stage name Jason Justin Jade.
Dead now.
Lung cancer.
More in my life now than when he was alive. This stranger in me.
Lost opportunities. No more chances. Just fill in the blanks. A Mad Lib man.
Noun, verb, noun, adverb, adjective.
Born somewhere.
Died somewhere else.
The internet could tell me, but I want to know what I know.
Showing results for…
A secret agent .
Professional mystery.
Maybe.
No.
Not Rex
He is not notable, something flawed but with purpose, a detachment born of love, a primal need to keep his child safe.
The unknown takes any number of words to describe, to make the blank say something. Page after page of darts on a board that land somewhere that is nowhere. The shortest version of a life is what you know.
Here is what I know: My father is a moustache, spent cigarettes, a BMX bike (or was it Huffy) and a three day father-son Disneyland trip that ended after 24 hours. Rex Sims. Male stripper from the 1970s. Stage name Jason Justin Jade.
Dead now.
Lung cancer.
