Adios Muchachos

"I'm going to let you go", said my distant in-law Aunt Betty

"well adios then", came a most unrehearsed, natural reply

she laughed, like my response carried stowed away irony

yet I distinctly remembered the strangest of reasons why

My reclusive Pa, oft showed a same sort of awkwardness

dropping me easily as soiled sombreros forgotten in bars

I didn't mind much though because something felt missing

a cultivated blindness of an unknowing closeness gone far