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    Family

    By Jonathan Lee Harris

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    Jonathan Lee Harris exposes all in this raw, humouros collection detailing the rise and fall of an overworked bipolar man.

    These biting poems delve into the darkness and into the joys of everything and everyone that is family. Having babies, making babies, separation, manic episodes, wife mother and father love and trouble, and the bliss of being a father.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781514492161
    Family
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    Jonathan Lee Harris

    Jonathan Lee Harris is a native Washingtonian with one son and one daughter. He studied Creative Writing at Boston University. He is a self described Buddhist Jew who enjoys his motorcycle, boating, and loves his family.

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      Family - Jonathan Lee Harris

      Copyright © 2016 by Jonathan Lee Harris.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 05/23/2016

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      CONTENTS

      A Max To Come

      Dear Dona, I Saw the Man Who Married Us Today

      Lets Submit

      She Said No

      Advice for My Unborn Son

      One Afternoon

      I Wanted To Call You

      Practically Drowning

      Voice Mail From She Who Made Me

      We Don’t Need An Alarm

      Max’s Great Aunt Ruth

      Jackie

      The Snow and the Bastard

      The Greatest Gift, You Gave To Me, Not Yet Hardly Forgotten

      K Street To Sarasota

      There Has Been An Emergency

      Your Diamong Ring

      The Playground

      The Grass Grows Here

      Starting To Notice The Birds Again

      I Met My Wife At Five A.M.

      Jean So Lovely

      One Day

      I Write A Poem

      Chinatown Sundays

      Hello, Baby

      The Water Hot

      Ft Lauderdale Is Full Of Water

      Is It I?

      The Whole Earth

      On Buying The Brick House In Brightwood

      Like Grandpa Harris I Will Be

      Polaroid Late Afternoon

      Talking With Mike About Bipolar And My Son

      The Morning After

      This Page Left Intentionally Blank

      Christmas Day

      The End, The Beginning

      Next Door He Plays

      Miss

      Sounds Of Our Ice Cream Truck

      Summary Of Myself

      This Is Family

      The Event

      A Max To Come

      Happy Halloween, son I sure wish you were here already…

      Your mother and I are real hip people,

              although you probablby won’t be

          able to see it clearly until you are my age.

          Everyone is dying to meet you…

      …and your mother and I are lonely this Halloween even together

       

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