Mama dress you all in lace
smack you hard across the face
loves to seem so fair and fine
serves your dollies turpentine
Daddy left by fast express
to take up with a baroness
who cries because her roses died
watered with formaldehyde
Chalking signs on sidewalk blocks
a bloody hen, a happy fox
when it rains the neighbors say
the chalk sticks rise and walk away
Now you're grown with one desire
to set your mama's house on fire
and dance across the blackened beams
to serve your dollies cakes and creams.
The malevolence of the childhood home and the wish for retribution of the adult come across as no one but you can write it!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletea devilishly clever rhyme, Shay, nimbly layering image upon image ~ m
ReplyDeleteOof, that first stanza stings with a slap. All of it breathing with smoke from the fire.
ReplyDeleteA nursery rhyme to set the demons howling as they run over the hot coals of the hell they've created. The child in me can sleep soundly knowing there's some comeuppance in the world.
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