Article: My Father My Son My Self

My father's guitar has his name, Len, printed immodestly in three-inch iridescent letters on its body, and they glisten as he tunes up to play for my son. His lyrics, scrawled into homemade booklets, are spread out on the floor, the kitchen sink, the music stand. As ever, my father takes his hootenannies seriously. He has always had this goose-like way of craning his neck as he reads. And silhouetted against a single lamp, he does this as he peers through silver reading glasses that are oddly oversized for his head. Knowing what a skinflint my father is, I figure he got a deal on them a long time ago and they've been falling off into his soup ever since. At 67, my dad still looks as I ...

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