Shankbite, ribcrack, splitback lip; waiting
in ER to get stitched up. Ten years old
and thick with scars. Puberty arriving
early. Special Ed being doom, foretold
by the bullies who knew a fag retard
sissy when they saw one. Adults who preyed
on such flesh said I made them wet and hard
and wild. What soul brings a knife to 5th grade
and then uses it? Children have no use
for a God that allows monsters to breed
monsters. It’s like having no God at all.
Childhood of ghosts, of excuse, of abuse,
needle and thread. Let it bleed. Let it bleed.
Let it bleed with ghosts that bully, that maul.
