02282025 visitation schedules

02282025

dear reader,

i think its time

to show you.

i've been wanting to show you;

to explain.

visitation schedules:

-alternating weekdays and weekends, during the school year, alternating holidays and a different summer schedule

-mwf, tth+weekends alternating weekly

-mwf, tth + every other weekend

-m-f, alternating weekends, monthly

-m-f, alternating weekends, bi-weekly

-m-f, alternating weekends, six month periods

-m-f, alternating weekly, two weekends alternating

-dad has sole custody, not allowed to see mom

-dad has sole custody, alternating every two weekends

-three months at one house m-f, alternating weekends

-mtw, thursdayfriday+weekend, weekend alternating weekly

-mtw, thursfriday+weekend alternating bi-weekly

-m-sun, alternating weekly

-m-sun, alternating bi-weekly

-m-sun, weekends with the other parent, alternating bi-weekly, for six month periods

-m-f, every other weekend, alternating weekly

-m-f, for three months, every other weekend alternating

-mwf, alternating weekends, bi-weekly

-six months, alternating every other weekend, split summer vacation and alternating holidays

-m-f, weekends alternating weekly, for one month periods

-mandatory phone call with the other parent nightly at a designated, yet revolving time

and the cops would be called if the car with us in it pulled all the way up to the house

and the cops would be called if we were late

and the cops would be called if we were early

and the cops would be called if he got out of the car

and the cops would be called if we didn't answer

and the cops would be called

and these are just the schedules i remember

from six to fifteen

and we never got hit because

cps and court ordered officials were dinner guests

and we were never heard because we never got hit

and some of us beared

and some of us fought

and all the letters i wrote with pictures in the margins were returned to me

and there was a sense of pride

within

the insanity

that our case was one the courts had never seen

and these are just the schedules i remember

from six to fifteen

when it became easier just to start staying at friends' houses

until i just stopped listening at 16

and i want to THANK the teachers who allowed me to use the computers in their classrooms

to look up my rights to emancipate as a minor,

if any

and i want to thank the teachers who listened to me read Sartre to them after class

and i want to thank the parents who opened up their home to me

and i wonder if she still thumps her tail in increments like 'ththththth' break 'ththththth' break

and i wonder if you still stretch your face the same while waking

and i wonder what the point of wondering is

when i wonder still

like no wonder

nothing has ever felt like mine

no wonder this is all yours (alt-j)

like no wonder

home

must be reimagined

overandoverandover

from scratch

there's so much wonder

within

this stillness

to support what will be

this curriculum

to redefine from the start

againagainagainagain

as a bump of the hips in passing,

as an adult,