Double Dipping

I could have been a poet,

instead,

I became a dad,

I could have been a rock star,

instead,

I became a nuclear operator,

I still like the strangeness,

though,

when you’re a dad,

you don’t have time

for deep reflection,

or avant-garde things,

you don’t have the balls

to take chances,

or stray too far

from the beaten path,

same could be said

of a nuclear operator

guess I’m doubly

f-----!

.

.