I wore plaid when I was
Knee high to a doorknob
I hated my dad so much that I
wanted to reach out and touch
knock him out with one punch
my mother got hit so much
I was mad coz she didn't hit him back
he dragged her and gagged her
tried to body bag and toe tag her
at the time I only had a little brother
if he was only older we would
have killed the mutter focker
people say I should have love my father
for what he hated my mother
I didn't care for either one
I had no respect for 'em
true confession after many sessions
put all my feelings in my journal
it went hard like a popcorn kernel
did it with a pencil sharp
like a stencil cutter
burns slow hot like a
blue habanero scrapping bone marrow
painful heat to your throat
cut deep from what I wrote
with pen and pad about my dad
the dead can't talk and defend themselves
if he was alive I'd kill him myself
box him up and mail him to hell
with a black rose pinned to his lapel
I found forgiveness in my heart
it wasn't like that from the start
my heart was in rags torn apart
I felt like Bart "Eat mah Shorts
all the feelings I had to horde
the clouds got darker
it turned cold I needed my parka
I had to pack up
Didn’t have no back up
mama told me to behave
stop stomping on his grave
to me he was just a man she slept with
treated her like the broom he swept with
blacked the eyes she wept with
to me he was a zero
She sewed him a cape
made him a hero
sent me one night
down on Skid Row
with a hot plate, knife and cake
I found him waiting by a gate
he said I love you
I threw the cake and the plate
pulled out the knife and said too late