Dear readers, Welcome back to Tea & Oranges! For today’s piece we have a returning writer, think of it like Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, or Terminator 2 — two sequels even better than the original, although the originals are classics for a reason. Cal James Adam is a writer based in Toronto, Ontario, and his poem, Mom Got A New Davenport is his second piece published with Tea & Oranges. We are so happy to welcome Cal’s work back into Tea & Oranges. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Anna, Editor-in-Chief
Cal James Adam is a writer and musician based in Toronto, Ontario. He recommends expanding your mind with a rigorous fitness routine.
O’ child o’ mine,
Sweet child o’ mine –
Like the Guns N’ Roses song –
I wish you could revisit the site of your conception,
To witness firsthand the love your mother and I shared that night.
If only you could understand the fiery passion we felt as I thrust inside of her and she told me that I was on her hair. The fiery, billowy passion we felt when she pretended not to notice my lanky arms shaking under my slim, or some would say childlike, weight about 2 minutes into missionary.
The fiery, billowy, fiery passion we felt when I came inside her and she said “Oh, good.”
Yes, I wish you, my child, could see the love your mother and I sculpted that night we made you, like we were casting our handprints into wet cement.
Yes, my child, sex with your mother made me think of wet cement.
On this anniversary of your conception date, I gift you this poem, titled: PLEASE DON’T LET THIS TRAUMATIZE YOU! and I thank you for being my blessing.
I look at you and I think of the love your mother and I have for each other,
As well as the love that your mother and I have for you.
I think if you multiplied the love your mother and I have for each other and the love your mother and I have for you,
The sum of the equation would fractalize into a great ball of love that could challenge the heat death of the universe and maybe the heat death of neighbouring universes.
Here we goo been waiting