Chris is stirring The Jam!

My cottonwool brain has not yet abated (two weeks now!), but who can resist the sweet, sticky stuff?
For Chris of Enchanted Oak is stirring the jam, and the theme was father. Or father afield, the notion of father. Or even father afield, a honky-tonk song that didn't have to have anything to do with fathers. I do hope someone has chosen that one.

Anyway, I went with the notion, and it's all happening right here: http://poetryjaam.blogspot.com/2011/05/hello-all-erstwhile-bus-riders-and.html

The Absent Father

Terminator
Governator
Impregnator.
At what point
have you said to the boy,
I’ll be back.
More
Hasta la vista, baby,
that flat ironic tone
once conception confirmed.