the sex talk with your son

you sit your son down
at the age of thirteen
or fourteen
to have a serious
conversation, you rub
your eyebrows
and bite your lip,
but he knows already
before you open your mouth
what this talk is about.
i know about sex already
dad, he says, tossing a
baseball from hand
to hand.. ask me
anything.  go ahead
anything. you nod, then
nod some more. okay. okay.
you say. well, when a woman...
dad, let me stop you
right there. i said i know
about sex. i didn't say
i know anything about
women. oh, you say. well.
ummm. great. that makes
two of us.  good
talk son, good talk.
play some catch?