Scared of Abusive Dad
He comes home drunk and parks the car,
trying deliberately to hit the dog.
He says my housework isn’t up to par.
He calls me ugly like a frog.
He takes a baseball bat and hits
my brother when he dares to complain.
He says he’ll grind me into bits
and flush the pieces down the drain.
He smokes and tells my mother not
to have a single cigarette.
He downs shot after shot
so his aggressiveness he’ll forget.
He burned the house one fateful day.
He claims it was an accident.
Be that as it may
he was relieved he wouldn’t have to pay the rent.
He shoves us, pushes us around
and spat in my mom’s pretty face.
I’ll be happy when he’s in the ground.
He’s that much of a disgrace.
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