wherever you are now
please accept this belated apology
for sending a very 70s greeting card
with a couple walking along a sunny beach
containing this inscription:
someday
some way
somehow
I wasn’t a good listener at 15
didn’t read unspoken social cues
until the age of 21
wherever you are now
please forgive me
for being presumptuous
and making unintended changes
in your later views of me