15.2.14

“My mother was a happy

Woman and she took good

Care of me and my

Father but one day my

Father decided that he wasn’t in

Love with her and that his

Son wasn’t worth staying with her so he

Left us and for a while my mother acted as

If everything was the way it was

Before” Lou listened to me eyes

Wide hanging on my every

Word and it reminded me of

Myself when (I) listened in to my

Parents’ conversations “but then she

Saw my dad with another

Woman and she called him over

To our house telling him he’d forgotten

Something and when he got here she

Asked about the girl he’d met and he

Said that she was her

Replacement my mother slapped

Him but he laughed at the

Sting going through his face and saw

Me staring into the room from the

Corner of the

Door he said never to fall in

(Love) because that was the biggest

Mistake I would ever make my

Mother took this knife and pushed

It through his back I watched as he

Fell to the ground and my mother told

Me it was okay and daddy was a liar I said that

Monsters deserve to

Die and don’t get

Love as a consolation

Prize” Lou whispered to me ‘(you)

Aren’t the beast I thought you

Were’