Timothy Otte is the author of the chapbook Rebound, Restart, Renew, Rebuild, Rejoice (Lithic Press, 2019). He is a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, facilitates Poetry Book Club at SubText Books in St. Paul, and works as a bartender. Otte lives in Minneapolis, but keeps a home on the internet: www.timothyotte.com. Say his last name like body.
My father didn’t like my movie choices. He said they weren’t realistic. He’d been in the Air Force and was deployed in Vietnam. He’d brought back his own war stories.