Before the Old Man Comes Home

Grab that piece from the floor

Fix it up like before

Tape the knee

Wait,  lift it higher

He'll forget that it broke

There we go (Is that smoke?)

Oh my gosh

It smells like fire

Here take the heel of the shoe

We're out of luck without glue

So, try again (Nothing fits)

This might work (Call it quits)

What's the point (Just do the best we can)

Before the old man comes home

There ought to be something we can do to make mom feel better too

Like what

Well for one thing you can start eating your food

Without all that little piggy stuff

She'll come back, see your plate

Won't believe that you ate

Try to swallow just one carrot

I don't know if I can

Open up be a man

It's too much

Then fine we'll share it

Hey, if you just take a bite

They won't remember their fight (Alright)

Force it down, really quick

I think I'm getting sick

This could work

We need a better plan

Before the old man comes home

If he sees that the lamp is on

If she sees that the food is gone

Maybe then, that's when everything will be okay again

They old man returned a little later

With five bottles of extra strength glue

He  worked furiously but futility for at least an hour

At last he gave into the inevitability that the precious leg was lost

Not long afterwards our mother returned

Look I just

If I was

What I meant

It's because

How on earth

It got this way

When I said

I was so

And I tried

Yeah, I know

Listen Frank, what I mean to say

I'm sorry

I'm sorry too

The white flag had been waved

The war was over

Peace had once again returned to the land

With as much dignity as he could muster

The old man took what was left of his major award

Out in the back yard

I could never be sure

But I thought I could hear