Sketchbooks

Sitting side by side
Sketching our brains
Turmoil and priorities fill my page
Rocket ships and robots fill his
He fans through earlier pages
“Dad I need a new book”
I ask why
“So I can be careful next time”
Careful of what
“I didn’t do good drawings before”
I like them all
“But I’m a lot better now”
Yes you are
Without the whole book
How would you know

-T. Weeks
(A response to “The United States to Old World Critics“)