Sometimes I wish for a deadbeat dad.
It'd be better that the 1 I had
Old and spiteful
Full of hate
seemed good to outsiders.
want to kill him
take him out with a gun
send him up river
then ride off on a horse with
no saddle.
Mother Goose and the Tooth Fairy
couldn't heal our hearts that were
like Humpty Dumpty and his wall
he fell off.
No one could put him together again.
MD, 2/1/98
