Ten or twelve years ago
At the kids’ gymnastics place
Doing the rope climb
Three-fourths of the way
She quit plain and simple quit
Took her for pizza later
Wrote on the pizza parlor napkin
Big ass quit dog
Slid the napkin to her side
The next week she climbed the rope
Now she’s going to U of Pennsylvania
Drove her to the airport last night
We stopped for pizza I said do you remembee
That time I wrote big ass quit dog on the napkin
She said no dad I don’t remember
No dad I don’t remember!
But my sin is always
Before my eyes
(Psalm 51)
I called my daughter a big ass quit dog
— Mitch Sisskind