Familial Casual

Your Father, megaphones from sidelines.
Your Mother, inventor of The Whatever.
Your Sister, scrams to Lisboa
for Lisboa’s sake.
Your Uncle, shuffler in Orthopedics.
Your Aunt, speaks in miracles
of the plastic ass surgeon.
Your Auntie, eats mushrooms
in Oaxaca with French daytrippers.
Your Other Sister, services
the ancient indigent from the top
of Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Your Other Aunt, Night Nurses.
Your Other Uncle, plaster
architect, part-time flaneur.
Your Cousin, encroaches
on the Midwest—
invades Naperville.
Your Other Cousin, hoists
mausoleum reefs into Biscayne.
Your Other Cousin, brings
home strays, like Noel, in mini
skirt, tube top, and strapless pumps.
Your Godfather, throws it all away
to raise horses on the Okeechobee.
Your Other Cousin, go-fors
for a corrupt judge.
Your Other Father, former
Brown Beret, former bodyguard
to Black Elk.
Your Other Mother, ‘Rican
secretary with babies in Fallujah.
Your Other Mother, veteran marm
with cottage in Ossining.