Love Poem: Daddy
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Written by: Audrey Donegan

Daddy

How crushing

             the plung,

                 your weight collapsing my

                       kindergarden bones.

                       Your number one girl

                 six at best

           learned love comes with a price

       attached to a cock.

    Invading me wholly

  again

and 

  again

    branding me with the 

       dis-ease of obligation.

 

          What is love 

               if not the lust in your eyes?

 

                      Did I pea

                   and beg

                and scratch

             and gnaw

       for you to stop?

 

             Was my obedience dependable?

 

                     Now 

               at twenty-three

     with eyes the age of time herself

            I am begining to remember:

                  you are double fudge chocolate cake

                          and I am diabetic.