"Dad" is the second book in Jim Gee's Trilogy, "Blowing Out The Candles".“People get old at different ages, some quite young,” Jim Gee says. “This stage-to-nowhere phase of life we call old age makes you think.”Sometimes cynical, sometimes searing, at times gut wrenching, Gee’s poems are of heart and mind, filled with pathos and humor. They have the power to turn us inside out and make us think about our own lives, about our relationships with each other, about our covenants with religion, and about our passivity in dealing with government and bureaucracies. Sometimes he is strident and in our face, but Gee cares for us enough to take us into his life space. In an act of courage, he takes off his armor, and brutally honest, he peels back the layers, until all contrivance has left him and he appears before us vulnerable on the page. These are poems not only for quiet contemplation, but also poems to be shared.