Oops, there goes another one!

Another one hundred year old

Is being torn down

The Friendship Hotel

Was a local establishment

But there are no longer

Any locals

The old truck and pony

Winthers township

With Marshall Winthers

Is long gone

Replaced by the immigrants

Then the hippies

And now it is 

LGBT 

With its rainbow flag

No place for any romantic

Nostalgic ideas

Tear them things down.

Make way for the new!

Meanwhile,

Across town

What is called 

Little Italy

Was once the original

Firehouse

With a wood ladder company

That my Scandinavians

Called home

Their Cedar street house

Was bulldozed

By some kid calling himself

Juan Barron

Another bastard

Jimmy and Teresa

Went to Reno

And had a chapel wedding

No photos to prove it

Except the one taken

At the Comstock

One of those salon style

Juan was not even 10 years old

And I not considered an adult

Under 21 and a minor

In his eyes

He told her to adopt me

Even though 

We have been through it before

No six year old

Has ever become

The parent of a child

Not even in the bible

Jimmy wont give up

And each wife he takes

He tells to become my mum

Meanwhile the little bastard

Born before their wedding

Decided to make me his mum

And I was not old enough

Nor functional at all.

John Wheat

Has been lying to the locals

And there is nothing I can do about it.

After all the state of California

Issued him a drivers license

With my name on it

And no birth certificate.

Patronymic names

Are based upon

The paternal line

In some cases

The names go all the way

To the Doomsday book

Of 1066

When William the conqueror

Took stock of his conquered

Mine is there without a change

In other places

The name rotates

Upon each generation

Hence Fritz and son

Are added on to the same 

Or Man to distinguish

Ethnicity 

Or place names

Where a person is from

Alter as they travel

Between Italy to France

To Scotland

But then get altered

At Ellis Island

Where the clerks

Were not high quality

Pentagon staff

But simple English speakers

Who past the civil test

Of the time period.

My maternal line

Came through 

Angel Island

The west coast

Version in the Bay Area

The other island

Besides Alcatraz

Is Angel island

Which was also turned 

Into a Civil war fort.

Therefore my family line

Should have looked 

Like this if they had done it proper:

Ladds

Herons or Swann's

Jackman

Nielson

Instead it is Peterson

All the way down

Because they were 

From Saint Petersburg

The real name is lost

An old one they say...

Oldenburg?

All those generations

Who have built homes

And dreams

Destroyed

By some little bastard

Who claims to be Mexican

But was plucked

Up by Teresa

When she was with her other husband

In the East

Jordan or Isreal

Was that trip overseas

When my mother 

Had another baby

And she had to go 

Through the usual 

Routine of getting rid

Of the ones 

Already born

In order to accept 

The new one

It did not last 

More than a day

While we sat there

Waiting to be adopted

By our own parents

Who had both 

Been raised as only children

Told all sorts of stories

We had to endure

This novel romantic

Thing of my mothers

While my father

Sat there in frustration

Until he could not go it again

Walked out just when the last one

Was making its appearance

In her tummy

Not again!

Anyways

I do recall

Sitting there on the steps

Telling the others to behave

Actually I sent out 

The boys to find

The Grandparents

While I waited to see

With my sister

Who was building

Up to a crescendo

Of wrath for our mother

People began to drop off

Thier unwanted babies

Not knowing it was 

A tradition 

With us to be accepted

By a woman 

Who had grown up

With no siblings

Not even the one

Called Judy is hers

Some aunt on the other side

After grandma had fallen

Off the top 

Of the three story home

And had a miscarriage.

Lucky us

Here came grandpa

To lead the tearful one

And the sorrowful one

Down to the waiting taxi

While Teresa 

Thought she would

Grab an toddler

Assuming it was ours

So, she could use

Extortion on us.

And has done so

Through the wrong man

Jimmy is not ours

His name is Bullocks

And Juan or John

Is not mine

How do I make him

Pay me back

For what he has stolen

Generations of dreams?

By putting his sister

Janet Pitts

In jail for the rest of her life....