poemranker ::my fucking dad by timvick473662003

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Free verse № 65052

my fucking dad

Member since 2003 · Posted 13 Sep 2003 · Edited 13 Sep 2003 · 4 comments

Living in a personal hell half of your God forsaken life wishing death upon my on putrid soul death upon the father as a whole wishing one of us would take the plunge falling on a propped up knife Watching your father beat your defensless mother screaming and crying stop watching your father beat your mother with your unborn brother screaming unheard cries Growing older living in this painful hell knowing it is your demise wishing death upon yourself with painfully cold eyes knowing it's the only way out watching your dad beat you, feeling his cold jabs tasting the iron rich blood in your mouth explaining you fell down the steps at school the next day afraid of what people think knowing you are dead on the inside Threating to leave home without your father dead knowing when you do your mother has had it turning your back trying to breath at the point of gasping for the rancid air of freedom Reading in the papers your moithers obituary not having any remorse hey it's her fault not yours, is it? Is it?

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4 comments

[8] baphomet 13-Sep-03/8:24 PM Reply
you should see a shrink.
your weird.
why don't you just kick his ass.
8 for emo man
3char1per
[7] http://mulberryfairy 13-Sep-03/8:24 PM Reply
I like the detachment (dissociation) when you say "watching your dad beat you"- but I didn't like it as much toward the end, I couldn't really believe that the narrator would be able to be so remorseless about his/her mother's death.
[5] ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 14-Sep-03/2:50 PM Reply
respect thy elders
[3] nentwined 14-Sep-03/7:34 PM Reply
you've got some good (if not overdone) material, but the execution of it leaves room for polish. or a couple more tries. I'd suggest losing the first stanza and getting straight into the action. less generic angst, more bloody details, more specific emotion, less... less of every other poem on this subject.