every hero needs a villain every villain thinks he’s a hero conflict is the source of all drama Tam would know about drama he authored plenty it took me an age to catch on but he finally set me straight he thought that I needed toughened
up he was teaching me how to hate
a father’s love can crush a boy or temper him in the fire Tam is just a story now the family bogeyman I play the hero in the tales that I tell stories of love and hate not as some dialectic process but a living contradiction played out in a homemade hell
