Long Way Down — How You Been?

HOW YOU BEEN?

Weird talking to my dad

like he was a stranger

even though we hugged like family.

A’ight, I guess,

I said, unsure of what else to say.

How do you small-talk your father

when “dad” is a language so foreign

that whenever you try to say it,

it feels like you got a third lip and a second tongue?