Good Pole // Bad Pole: An Empowering And Cautionary Tale
Good Pole // Bad Pole is a story about love and loss. The love a father feels when he sees his baby girl for the first time. The loss he feels as his soul physically exits his body the next time he stares up at someone else's baby girl grinding it out on a dingy stage.
Make no mistake, this is a pathetic ploy to escape the responsibility of fatherhood, and desperately hold onto a long-lost edginess as I see myself creep toward death like a reverse portrait of Dorian Gray.
- David Russo
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
When one reflects on the stereotypical 'eureka' moment, it conjures up images of an isolated scientist hunched over a microscope. Less so, an exhausted man-child first time dad scouring bookstores for a snarky baby gift.
"Is it possible that no one has written an adult children's book on the trope of keeping their daughter off the stripper pole?" this grown-ass man reasonably and not at all pathetically ponders.
"If not I must make it so."
Then, in a fit of Hemingway-esque inspiration, he breathlessly gives birth to his artistic vision in a frenetic late night creative fit. His passion for art rendering him immune to the nuisance of sleep, hunger and wailing of his newborn daughter.
And so, Good Pole // Bad Pole was born. The single most important birth in this devoted father-of-two's life. I hope you fellow degenerates see the sublime and elegant humor in the most sophisticated new dad gift since fake breast bottles.
