Gumby Jaws

I've never really understood

Why my family hated me

But I know they did

All of them.

Right from the start.

I never had many friends of my own

We moved a lot

We had to

My mother was mentally ill

And she would start fires in nurseries

So we had to move a lot.

I never graduated from school

I just stopped going after the seventh grade

I remember not being able to do enough pushups

And this fat homosexual gym coach

Kept pushing me on the back of my neck

That's when I first realized

That I didn't want to become another

Old fat homosexual gym coach

Life is like that.

I watched a lot of television

Mostly the game shows

I could tell you the cost of about anything

Between 1966 and 1969

But that and a nickel won't get me on a bus

I love buses

I really like the smell don't you

I could live in the middle of a crowded bus

If someone asked you for a quarter

So that they could play a song on the jukebox

And you gave it to them

And they bought a cup of coffee instead

Would you be mad

I've never really understood

Why my family hated me

But I know they did

All of them.

Right from the start.

That's why.