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May 16, 2025 | Poetry

Why I Pulled All the Reds from My Crayola Box

Patrick G. Roland

Before the internet had all the answers,
before Siri, before Alexa,
before TikTok teens with ring lights
explained the universe in under thirty seconds—
I had my dad.

Dad was my Wikipedia.
Dad

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