Detestable

I hate their father

he is everything
every smug selfish
white man I’ve
ever known

He has made my life
a misery
and I wish for
his forgettable unremarkable
disappearance

I wish to wipe him
from their memories
and take his curse
of low expectations
and victimhood
with him

still he taints their lives
with his rancid smile
and poisons them with his
false promises of love and
attention

he will be the cause
of their premature
bitterness and their
tendency to fall for
every story to
come down the pike

I hate that he comes
to my house to
pick up the kids
I raise

the kids I help
the kids I love

he can drive away
and never return and
I’ll not miss that
misshaped and deformed head
his goodtime gladhanding
and his pathetic sociability

and I am angry
because I know how easily
I’d be trumped
if they could make it so

if he’d just be nicer
the kids would want him back
and maybe
even
my wife would want him back

so I’m grateful
that he’s such
a detestable figure.

I’m glad he’s a shit
because if he wasn’t
a miserable dumb
son of a bitch

then I wouldn’t have my family.
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fuck'n A, Bro!

J.