Lamentations of the Father
Published May 16, 2004 by John
I just came across Ian Frazier’s hilarious book of laws for the household in print. I first heard a recording of him reading this on A Prairie Home Companion, and with pre-school kids of our own, Sara and I were in tears. Reading it is almost as good, but I now bless the MPR programmers who have it in the archives. We aren’t past these years yet, so it’s still funnyy, but only after the kids are in bed for the day.
“And though the pieces of broccoli are very like small trees, do not stand them upright to make a forest, because we do not do that, that is why. Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other, nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go into the syrup. And now behold, even as I have said, it has come to pass.”
Amen.
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