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For No One's Sake

  • Joanne Benedetto
  • Jan 21
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 22

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“I hate you!” I yelled back for no one’s sake,

Mother screamed, “I had more than I can take!”

 

Exploding from the kitchen with a knife,

My father quickly grabbed it from his wife.

 

“It’s gone too far!  Don’t do something crazy!”

She shattered a window instead of me,

 

Her fist, went through the glass before she cried,

My father was afraid of suicide.

 

“I CREATED HER SO I CAN KILL HER!”

 

I bolted when he blocked me in the door,

And let her in my room, “You little whore!

 

‘Take off your underwear so I can see!

‘I want to see what you let the boys see!”

 
 
 

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