The Fusco Brothers by J.C. Duffy for May 29, 2021

Only if you were a Wolfette before.

Today I am a Wolverine. Because I wasn’t good enough to be a Buckeye.

what were you yesterday?

Looks like is writing with the old saying on your Bar Mitzvah: Today I am a Fountain Pen

Too late for that.

Perhaps, an adult male wolverine, grr.

Still waiting for dear diary to respond?

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And – which is more – you’ll be a Wolverine, my son!