When I Grow Up

Super Man or Maybe a Cop

By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 11, 2016

When I Grow Up

When you grow up
What do you want to be
They asked
Never happened
Grew up that is
Still Peter Pan
Or Charlie Brown
As Astrid calls me
Big Boy or The Big
To friends
With a knowing laugh
Answer always changed
Cowboy to cop
Perhaps Super Man
Wished I could fly
After first ballet
Swan Lake
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Briefly aspired
To be a ballerina
That didn’t last
Then Dad chimed in
Doctor just like him
Chip off the old block
It got ugly
Fist fight in the
Back yard
Ended up an artist
What the heck that means