My middle child wanted me

February 17, 2002

My middle child wanted me to shave his hair into a Mohawk today. He's been asking for a week so I did his bidding during a break in recording. My parents would always nix such behaviour until I just did it out of defiance. I never understood why they did that. I still don't understand it. I loved shaving his little head and marvelling at the mini-pops Joe Strummer with his one front tooth. He had grown his hair pretty long so he's got some good length to soap up in the morning. It will be an interesting day at school! He's big for his age. That will help. I was the middle child too. Why does that make you want to screw with things just as they get rolling? You want to push the envelope but you still care if you get caught. You vacilate between raising hell and getting good grades. Accomplishment and sabotage. Graduate from university and then never get a real job for the rest of your life. The glorious middle.